Thanks to all I will look into both books.
david
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:48:07PM -0800, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | I think you want this:
> > | find / -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec du {} \; | egrep -v "/[^/]*/"
> >
> > You can make that even simpler:
> > /.*/
> > No need to use [^/] there...
>
> That's true, but I mostly quit using '.*' after some very serious
> performance problems with a Perl CGI a while back. One '.*' is fine, but
> using more than one can cause a string to get traversed in some awful,
> awful ways. I try to be more concise.
>
> > Or of course the cool sed/awk O'Reilly book, which also has regexp stuff.
>
> Absolutely. Doesn't O'Reilly have a book on regex's specifically?
>
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