-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >I'm trying to find a way to get the names of the files in my Mail folder >but would like to exclude the sent folder. >I'm trying to find the parameters to echo that will send me the list >but I'm having a hard time and I was wondering if somebody could help me. > >I've tried `echo [^sent]*` which send back every file but those starting >with s, e, n and t. `echo [^s]*` sends back every file but those >starting with s but that's not enough. Any globbing experts out there?
You could always take advantage of grep: `ls ~/mail | grep -v '^sent'` Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94329D iD8DBQE78odGpCpg3WyUI50RAgobAKCtShR93uek9uOod0dcMneJYEA+FQCgr8nj S2gibwUpb89IARhNNaRAXmM= =aBI6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
