Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I have a list of filename is a file called list.dat.
The filenames appear in the list.dat file as this:

Code:

./set.class
./one.class

I want to delete these file names from the list file using sed. To test I was trying to match just the set.class. Eventually I want to delete all the filenames that appear in the file with this match.
The command I am executing is:

Code:

cat list.dat| sed -n -e /^.\/set*/d

I am receiving a "command garbled". Can anyone see a problem with this command? Thank you.

Did you forget the '

Code:

sed -n -e '/^.\/set*/d' list.dat

Vino

Thanks Vino. That worked. I used

Code:

sed -n -e '/\.\/\.*\./p'

to find the filenames that have the hidden filename convention like:

Code:

./.webappCorpActions.java
./.webappGtp.docs

How can I exclude files that do not end in a .'ext'? I have some files that have names like this that I do not want to delete

Code:

./.hidden
./.iwantthisfile

I tried these...

Code:

sed -n -e '/\.\/\.*\.[a-z]/p'
sed -n -e '/\.\/\.*\.*$/p'

but they still return a file like ./.file.. Any suggestions?

Thanks

sed -n '/^\.\/\.[^.]*\./p'

Instead of the previous post

sed -n '/^\.\/\.[^.][^.]*\./p'

The repeated [^.] is to ensure at least one non '.' char.

Thank you very much!