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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unix command to count the number of files with specific characters in name Post 302419391 by dr.house on Friday 7th of May 2010 04:12:21 AM
Old 05-07-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by murphysm
Is there a way to exclude hidden files?
If "hidden" means "file name starting with a dot", filtering should be possible, I daresay:

Code:
[house@leonov] ls -1A | grep '.file'
.hidden.file
test.file
that.file
this.file
[house@leonov] find . -name "*.file" | wc -l
4
[house@leonov] find . -name "[[:alnum:]]*.file" | wc -l
3

 

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PYSYCACHE(1)															      PYSYCACHE(1)

NAME

       pysycache - educational software to learn to manipulate the mouse with pleasant activities.

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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