On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:30:08PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:01:22AM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> > 
> > You could always take advantage of grep:
> > 
> >   `ls ~/mail | grep -v '^sent'`
> 
> I thought of that but I need all the info on one line, hence the echo.

Well, how about

echo `ls ~/mail | grep -v '^sent'`

then?

$SOMEVAR=`ls ~/mail | grep -v '^sent'`

works, too, and you can do with $SOMEVAR whatever you like, then.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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