[lug] regular expression question

[Ted Logan]

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

That matches a '/' (forward slash) followed by the end-of-line (which
the $ matches in regular expressions). So ultimately the whole command
will print out the first file in the current directory, excluding
subdirectories.

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