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Old 05-18-2005
search in a directory using grep command
Hi,

I want to search files/directories in /temp directory which starts with letter 'a'. How can I do that using grep command.

I can find out like ls -ltr a* but I want to use grep command like ls -ltr | grep ..... like that.

Please help.

Malay
# 2  
Old 05-18-2005
Try

ls -1 | grep "^a"
# 3  
Old 05-21-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by malaymaru
I can find out like ls -ltr a* but I want to use grep command like ls -ltr | grep ..... like that.
Why? Why launch a grep process unnecessarily?! Unless you have a huge volume of files to sift through which is going to cause shell expansion problems, why create the additional overhead? Smilie

Cheers
ZB
# 4  
Old 05-23-2005
Tools try this
ls -lt|cut -f2 |grep ^a

Chrs
Rahul
# 5  
Old 05-23-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by rahul123_libra
ls -lt|cut -f2 |grep ^a
???
This will not output anything useful. In fact, it my directory full of files beginning with the letter "a", it produced no output.

If you really want to use grep, then just do....

Code:
ls -1t /some/dir | grep "^a"

Cheers
ZB
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