Hello.
Dan Heller wrote:
>
> intent (example): list all files in a directory that aren't html files.
>
> $ ls --except *.html
>
> I can obviously pipe ls though grep -v to get the result, but I can't put
> the result back into ls because ls doesn't accept stdin. Hence, this does
> not work:
>
> $ ls | grep -v .html | ls [OPTIONS]
>
> I want the nicely formatted result that ls gives (w/appropriate formatting
> params), but from input not necessarily from the command line.
Again, xargs is your friend:
ls | grep -v .html | xargs ls [OPTIONS]
You might want to use something more like this, though:
find . ! -type d ! -name '*.html' | xargs ls [OPTIONS]
(Find all files that are not directories and not called '*.html'.)
Note that find & xargs can cope with filenames with spaces by using nul as the
separator. See the info docs for GNU findutils for details:
info findutils
Regards,
--
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]
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