I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.

1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?

2.) Is it possible to only list directories?

3.) How do I put vim into insert mode automagicly when it's opened by
slrn to post?

I know question number 3 is way out there but I figure enough of us in
here use slrn and surely somebody else was annoyed by this who is
smarter then me and figured out how to do it.

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On 2004-04-15, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
> I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.
>
> 1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?

what hidden files??

ken

On 2004-04-15, Kenneth <Kenneth@pickone.anyone> wrote:
> On 2004-04-15, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
>> I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.
>>
>> 1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?
>
> what hidden files??
>
> ken

Any files starting with a "." such as .bashrc

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On 2004-04-15, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
> On 2004-04-15, Kenneth <Kenneth@pickone.anyone> wrote:
>> On 2004-04-15, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
>>> I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.
>>>
>>> 1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?
>>
>> what hidden files??
>>
>> ken
>
> Any files starting with a "." such as .bashrc
>

ls -a, can be found in man ls.

That's not a hidden file, it's just a file that begins with a "."

I've never heard of hidden Linux files.



ken

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:51:38 -0000, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
> I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.
>
> 1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?
>
> 2.) Is it possible to only list directories?

I think you should use find instead of ls. It gives you more options.

> 3.) How do I put vim into insert mode automagicly when it's opened by
> slrn to post?

Take a look at vim's manpage. I think you can do it with the -c command line
argument.

Sebastian
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:46:39 +0000, Kenneth wrote:

> On 2004-04-15, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
>> On 2004-04-15, Kenneth <Kenneth@pickone.anyone> wrote:
>>> On 2004-04-15, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
>>>> I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.
>>>>
>>>> 1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?
>>>
>>> what hidden files??
>>>
>>> ken
>>
>> Any files starting with a "." such as .bashrc
>>
>
> ls -a, can be found in man ls.
>
> That's not a hidden file, it's just a file that begins with a "."
>
> I've never heard of hidden Linux files.
>
>
>
> ken
i think that he wanted ONLY files that begin with '.', and 'ls -a' will
list all files

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:51:38 +0000, Scott Eberl wrote:

> I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.
>
> 1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?
>

ls -a | grep '^\.'


> 2.) Is it possible to only list directories?

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d




regards,
i.

> 1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?

Try ls -d .*
>
> 2.) Is it possible to only list directories?
>
Not that I know of.

Scott Eberl wrote:

>I have 3 questions and hopefully at least 1 of them can be answered.
>
>1.) Does the ls command have a switch to only list hidden files?
>
>
No (there aren't any such things in Linux); however, the -a option will
list the files with a leading dot.

>2.) Is it possible to only list directories?
>
>
No, not without piping the output of ls through sed or grep or something.

Try this:

ls -aCF

this will list the "dot" files, directories with a slash, executables
with an asterisk -- if you like this display, make an alias, say "lc".
Might be a step in the right direction.

Also, try

ls -1

to list files in one column (you can add -aCF to that).

>3.) How do I put vim into insert mode automagicly when it's opened by
> slrn to post?
>
>
Well, pretty much can't. You can send it to a specifc pattern with

vi +/pattern file

then type "i" when it opens...

>I know question number 3 is way out there but I figure enough of us in
>here use slrn and surely somebody else was annoyed by this who is
>smarter then me and figured out how to do it.
>
>
>

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Ivan dared to utter,
> ls -a | grep '^\.'

UUOG (Useless Use Of Grep).

ls -ad .*

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