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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ls help: ls not working with start character search (^) Post 302785949 by rveri on Tuesday 26th of March 2013 03:09:20 PM
Old 03-26-2013
Ls help: ls not working with start character search (^)
Experts,

How to list a file using ^ character, for all files started with character a. (os= hp-ux )

Code:
# ls -l 
-rw-------   1 useradm    users            0 Mar 26 14:30 abc
-rw-------   1 useradm    users            0 Mar 26 14:30 def
-rw-------   1 useradm    users            0 Mar 26 14:33 zyx
#


Code:
Trying but not working, any idea whats wrong, 
# ls -l ^abc
^abc not found

# ls -l ^a*
^a* not found

# ls ^a*
^a* not found



Thanks a lot.

---------- Post updated at 03:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:46 PM ----------

Also can anyone please explain , how the ^ character not working with
Code:
ls

, for regex.




Did not work with ls: # Wanted to list which is not having first letter a .
Code:


Code:



# ls -l [^a]bc
-rw-------   1 useradm   users            0 Mar 26 14:30 abc


Worked with grep: # Wanted to list which is not having first letter a .
Code:
# ls -l | grep "[^a]bc"
-rw-------   1 useradm   users            0 Mar 26 14:48 bbc


Thanks a lot.
 

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locale::currency

Locale::Currency(3perl) 				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				   Locale::Currency(3perl)

NAME

       Locale::Currency - standard codes for currency identification

SYNOPSIS

	   use Locale::Currency;

	   $curr = code2currency('usd');     # $curr gets 'US Dollar'
	   $code = currency2code('Euro');    # $code gets 'eur'

	   @codes   = all_currency_codes();
	   @names   = all_currency_names();

DESCRIPTION

       The "Locale::Currency" module provides access to standard codes used for identifying currencies and funds, such as those defined in ISO
       4217.

       Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the code set to use. If not specified, the default ISO 4217
       three-letter codes will be used.

SUPPORTED CODE SETS

       There are several different code sets you can use for identifying currencies. The ones currently supported are:

       alpha
	   This is a set of three-letter (uppercase) codes from ISO 4217 such as EUR for Euro.

	   Two of the codes specified by the standard (XTS which is reserved for testing purposes and XXX which is for transactions where no
	   currency is involved) are omitted.

	   This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_CURR_ALPHA".

	   This is the default code set.

       num This is the set of three-digit numeric codes from ISO 4217.

	   This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_CURR_NUMERIC".

ROUTINES

       code2currency ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       currency2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
       currency_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
       all_currency_codes ( [CODESET] )
       all_currency_names ( [CODESET] )
       Locale::Currency::rename_currency  ( CODE ,NEW_NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Currency::add_currency  ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Currency::delete_currency  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Currency::add_currency_alias  ( NAME ,NEW_NAME )
       Locale::Currency::delete_currency_alias	( NAME )
       Locale::Currency::rename_currency_code  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Currency::add_currency_code_alias  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Currency::delete_currency_code_alias  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
	   These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes man page.

SEE ALSO

       Locale::Codes
       Locale::Constants
       http://www.iso.org/iso/support/currency_codes_list-1.htm
	   The ISO 4217 data.

AUTHOR

       See Locale::Codes for full author history.

       Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).

COPYRIGHT

	  Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE).
	  Copyright (c) 2001	  Michael Hennecke
	  Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Neil Bowers
	  Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Sullivan Beck

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-26						   Locale::Currency(3perl)
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