Re: Need help with Linux Equivalent of a DOS command

From: A Nengineer (root_at_nowhere.inthe.cc)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:19:34 GMT

johnny bobby bee wrote:
> mjt wrote:
>
>>
>> bash-2.05b$ ls -al | grep ^d
>
>
> great tip. what's it mean? i can't find the '^' in 'man grep'.
>
> on a related note. is there an easy way with the ls command to have it
> list everything in a directory (files and directories), BUT all
> directories sorted before files?
>
> cheers,
> johnny
>
>

fyi, ^ means "begins with".

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