Ignore a directory in listing

Steven Buehler steve at ibushost.com
Sun Apr 6 16:05:49 UTC 2008


> Steven Buehler wrote:
> > I am trying to run the /bin/ls command but ignore a specific listing.
> > /bin/ls --ignore="steve" -d1 /usr/home/*
> > But when I run it with the -d1 option, it doesn't ignore it.  Does
anybody
> > know why?  Or how to do this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steve
> >
> 
> um, ls -d1 /usr/home/* | egrep -v "\/steve$"

Thanks, I was so intent on getting it to work with the --ignore= statement
from /bin/ls, that my mind went blank about any other way.  I had even tried
the --ignore="*steve" and --ignore"/usr/home/steve".  Apparently when the -d
option is used, you can't use the --ignore= option.

Steve




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