Re: Perl oneliners for Unix commands

If all you got is a hammer, then everthing starts lookin' like a nail.

A Perl one-liner is complete overkill for something like this, especially when you have so many more appropriate/less obfu-looking tools and solutions at hand ...

echo Q.PACES*
ls | grep '^Q\.PACES'
find . -name 'Q.PACES*' -print

Updates:

The echo trick may be Bourne/Korn-centric; buckaduck reports (and I've verified) that it doesn't work under csh.

Also corrected the search strings for grep and find.

--k.

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Re(2): VVP:Perl oneliners for Unix commands by dmmiller2k (Chaplain) on Mar 13, 2002 at 19:08 UTC
I agree. Overkill. BTW, you probably want single (non-interpolating) quotes in your third item, otherwise you run into the same problem as the first one (and the original question) had: `find . -name 'Q.PACES' -print` dmm If you* GIVE a man a fish you feed him for a day But, TEACH him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime	[reply] [d/l]