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Old 05-01-2008
Question append o/p of grep in colomns
Hi,

I am having a huge list of files out which i m just grepping files with extension .txt. For that i am using:

ls |grep .txt

And I am getting the desired o/p. But my o/p is too long (100 of files with .txt extension) thgat its going out of screen, like follow:

a.txt
b.txt
dg.txt
.......
.......
.......
.......
.......

and so on - 100 or 1000 of fies.

Is that any way to append o/p of grep in colomns as follow:

a.txt b.txt dg.txt
n.txt pp.txt rm.txt
...... ....... ........
...... ....... ........

Thanks-
Yogi
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Old 05-01-2008
You don't need any grep command in this case, simply issue:

Code:
ls *.txt

And that's done! The output of ls will be already in columns.
# 3  
Old 05-01-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by robotronic
You don't need any grep command in this case, simply issue:

Code:
ls *.txt

And that's done! The output of ls will be already in columns.
Thanks Robotonic - I am out of troble now. Sometimes small small things gets out of mind and you get stuck with big big problems.

Thanks for your help.

Yogi
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