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Re: [OT] ls for Caps only

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Smith)
Tue Nov 24 21:41:57 1998

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:01:18 -0500
From: Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
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In-Reply-To: <199811242343.PAA24799@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>; from Rick Forrester on Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 03:43:56PM -0800
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On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 03:43:56PM -0800, Rick Forrester wrote:
> 
> drgreer@QTIWORLD.COM said:
> > Howdy all.....I am trying to do a directory listing off all files 
> > that contain capital letters.  I was under the impression that one 
> > could grep for the caps using a reg exp.  Here is what I tried.... 	
> > ls $HOMEDIR/quick/* |grep /A-Z/
> 
> > But it does not seem to work.  Please enlighten me. 
> 
> try:
> 
> ls $HOMEDIR/quick/* | grep -E '[A-Z]'
> 

And something similar, if not identical:

	ls -d *[A-Z]*

Fred
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