type discriminating directory listing

Michael Morrell morrell at hpsal2.HP.COM
Sat May 13 03:58:34 AEST 1989


/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / jdpeek at RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) / 12:44 am  May 11, 1989 /
When you feed BSD "ls" into a pipe, it doesn't print the filenames in
columns; that's good for this test but it looks lousy on the screen if
there are lots of filenames.  A kludge for that looks like this:

	ls -F | grep '[/@]$' | pr -4 -l1 -t
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  You can also force multicolumn output using the "-C" option to "ls".
Thus, "ls -CF | grep '[/@]$'" will work.

   Michael



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