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. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ As a computer journalist, he's a good travel writer. - Ian Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about Gareth Powell _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list