On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0700, Ryan Bowman wrote: > I need a regular expression that will only match filenames with NO > periods in them. My attempts so far don't seem to work at all, in the > least. Can someone give me a hint, please?
You can do an inverse grep using -v option: ls -1 | grep -v "\." Or you can specify exactly what you are looking for like this: ls -1 | grep "^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$" which I think is the same as this: ls -1 | grep "^\w*$" but what you really want to know is this: ls -1 | grep "^[^\.]*$" Have fun, Phillip -- Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
