[lug] regular expression question

[Jarrar Jaffari]

As 'ls -1tp' (due to -p) would print one of the '/=@| ' at the end of each
file (ref man ls) and in grep -v '/$' means ignore '/' at the end of the
line, essentially what it is doing is listing the first file without / at
the end.

HTH,
Jarrar
On Dec 4, 2007 9:31 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:

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