On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 03:59 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Tim; > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 16:58 +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:35 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > It seems illogical, that 'ls' wouldn't have a flag that just shows > > > files when it has a flag for directories. > > > > Though that flag "ls -d" has a completely different purpose (show > > directory names, rather than go into them and list their contents). > > > True. But whatever its purpose, it does give me a list of directory > names. In fact it lists *all* its arguments as usual (the default being ".", as always), except that those which are directories are not listed recursively. It doesn't "give a list of directory names", unless that's what the arguments happen to be. There are no flags to ls which mean "ignore any arguments which belong to this class of object". > All that I am saying is that it would be handy to have a simple util > that listed file names. If you want to filter out directories, use grep, as several people have pointed out. That's the Unix Way (tm). > I suggest 'ls' because it is probably the most > used and first learned listing utility and therefore would be the place > to have it. It would be useful to beginners (particularly those who do > not yet have any idea what a regexp is) and for script writing or piping > to sed, awk, grep or a new file (or for appending). Said beginners need to learn that *directories are files* (and devices are files, named pipes are files, etc.). This is an important concept which should not be hidden. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
