Re: off-topic - list files on linux

[salman <salmanb(at)quietcaresystems(dot)com>]

Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Στις Friday 28 March 2008 14:39:53 ο/η A.Burbello έγραψε:
> > ls -t1p  | grep -v / | grep -v backup | head -1
>
> maybe:
> ls -t1p | grep -v / | grep -v backup | grep -v `ls -t1p | grep -v / | grep -v backup | head -1`

1) the -e flag for grep can be used to group strings so you don't have 
to pipe multiple times (eg: grep -i -e bleh -e bleh2 -e bleh3 -ve backup)

2) wouldn't find be easier to use? find . -maxdepth 1 -type -f -print

-salman