[lug] regular expression question

[Jeff Schroeder]

Kevin asked:

> Can anyone tell me specifically what the '/$' bit is in this grep
> stmt?
>
> ls -1tp | grep -v '/$' | head -1

It'll remove any line ending in a slash.  The "$" means "end of line".

HTH,
Jeff
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