Re: ls

[David T-G]

Markus --

...and then Embacher Markus said...
% 
% Hi,

Hi!


% 
% The result is
% 
% $  ls | egrep -vi '^[a-z0-9\._]*$'
% #MUSTER.txt
% #MUSTER2.txt
% #STONE.txt
% $$$COIBM.txt

Well, that takes care of that sort of question...  I thought that there
might be some special metacharacters in the middle of some files.

The only one that stands out to me is the $$$ file.  In UNIX, $$ means
"the id of the current process", while $whatever means "the value of the
environment variable whatever".  Your shell may be trying to expand
either or both of those and having problems.  Can you rename the file (no
dollar signs) or move it out of the directory and try again?

Note that you might then get an "argument list too long" error.  That's
not a problem with ls (it's been discussed before; see the mailing list
archives for a complete explanation), and it at least would show that
we've gotten past the current problem.


HTH & HAND

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