Re: list files but not directory

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On 08/21/09 10:35, quoth William Case:
> Hi;
> 
>> Seems like a very reasonable request and its a shame that ls does not 
>> provide such an option (which I guess would be an extension to the -A 
>> option)
>> 
> 
> I remember asking about this four or five years ago when I first started 
> using Linux (RedHat). (It was the first question I asked on the users 
> mailing list.)
> 
> Now that I am familiar with 'find' and 'grep' etc. I no longer worry about
> it.  However, 'ls' is probably the first commandline command a beginner
> learns.  It seems illogical, that 'ls' wouldn't have a flag that just shows
> files when it has a flag for directories.  It can cost newbies hours
> looking for a solution that isn't there.
> 
> Couldn't the shell maintainers just add an appropriate flag to show files
> only?

My take is that the ls command is already so heavily loaded with options that
you're better off rolling your own. For example, let's beuild two new
commands. lsd and lsD. lsd will only list directories and lsD will only list
nondirectories.

lsD ()
{
    typeset args1="$1"
    typeset args2="$2"

    ls -la $args1 | awk '!/^d/ {print $9}' | xargs ls $args2
}

Now you can try things like
lsd '-d x*' -l

and lsd is left as an exercise for the student. ;-)

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