It's not the body parts, it's the morbidness (morbidity?). Unix has
children and parents and ancestors, all of which you can kill, and some of
which will become zombies rather than just dying. Gross.


At 08:15 PM 5/1/01 -0800, you wrote:
>It's commands like awk, grep, xargs and troff that give UNIX a bad
>name.  I read somewhere (more years ago than I'd care to recall) that
>you should always beware of an operating system with commands that
>sounded like bad bodily functions.
>
>Jared Still wrote:
>> 
>> Haven't seen this one mentioned yet:
>> 
>> find . -type d -print | xargs ls -ld
>> 
>> Jared
>> 
>> On Tuesday 01 May 2001 19:55, David A. Barbour wrote:
>> > ls -Ra | grep /
>> >
>> > That's ls -Ra 'pipe' grep /
>> >
>> > You know, the spell checker has fits with the stuff on this list.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > David a. Barbour
>> > Oracle DBA, OCP
>> >
>> > Roy Ferguson wrote:
>> > > what I would like to see is all directories...not files starting with a
>> > > particular letter but all directories...
>> > >
>> > > ls -d   - doesn't work
>> > > ls -ld p*  - doesn't work either
>> > >
>> > > >Roy,
>> > > >
>> > > >You could do say ls -ld p* to list the directories starting with p.
>> > > >
>> > > >Rgds,
>> > > >
>> > > >raja
>> > > >--
>> > > >
>> > > >On Tue, 01 May 2001 13:35:46
>> > > >
>> > > > Roy Ferguson wrote:
>> > > >>what is the ls command to view only a list of directories?
>> > > >>
>> > > >>ls -la lists both files and directories...I want to view only a
list of
>> > > >>directories...
>> > > >>
>> > > >>environment is sun sparc solaris 2.6
>> > > >>
>> > > >>thanks in advance
>> > > >>
>> > > >>roy
>> > > >>
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