Re: questions relating to the ls and grep command

2003-01-10 Thread Robert Land
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:35:38PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > Would someone kindly explain when to use the > > "ls -d" command? The --help notes this would > > list the directory entries - which puzzles me > > a bit because I had ne

Re: questions relating to the ls and grep command

2003-01-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-08 15:49:00 +0100]: > Would someone kindly explain when to use the > "ls -d" command? This is explained in some detail here: http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/ Bob msg23040/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: questions relating to the ls and grep command

2003-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > Would someone kindly explain when to use the > "ls -d" command? The --help notes this would > list the directory entries - which puzzles me > a bit because I had never thought of there > may be more than one! Here's an example of the d