On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:48:07PM -0800, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I think you want this:
| 
| find / -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec du {} \; | egrep -v "/[^/]*/"

You can make that even simpler:

        /.*/

No need to use [^/] there...

| > Would somebody please point me in the direction for finding out how
| > pattern matching works.
| 
| Pick up any book on perl, or see any online tutorial on the language.  
| Since regular expressions are considered the "core" of the language, they 
| get a lot of attention and are explained very well to Perl programmers.

Or of course the cool sed/awk O'Reilly book, which also has regexp stuff.
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