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Old 07-09-2009
Command to list only files omit directories.

Hi All I am writting a script that does a comparison between files in 2 diffectent directories.
To do this I need a command that will list out only the files in a give directory and omit any sub dorectories with that directory. But I am unable to find it.

Please Help.

I tried

ls "$directory1\*" | grep -v "^d" but that doesnt seem to be working. Please help.
# 2  
Old 07-09-2009
Use find with -prune option.
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Old 07-09-2009
Please use CODE-tags when posting code, data or logs for better readabilty, ty.

Code:
ls -F <path> | grep -v \/


Last edited by zaxxon; 07-09-2009 at 05:44 AM.. Reason: typo
# 4  
Old 07-09-2009
Try this,

ls -p <Path> | grep -v "\/"
# 5  
Old 07-09-2009
Please try any of these:

Code:
perl -e 'while (<*>) { print $_."\n"; }'

Code:
find dir -name "*" -type f -maxdepth 1

Code:
ls -l dir | grep -v '^d'

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Old 07-09-2009
Thanks for your help guysssss!!!!!!!!!!!! it worked!!!
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