Re: Referenced graphics

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Artman [mailto:dartman@buildnet.com]
>>> However, you might want to think about adding some switches 
>>{SNIP}
>>> DIR *.XX1, *.XX2, *.XX3 /b /n /s > Filelist.txt
>>Also, is there a way to set a file type _exclusion_ if, for example, I
>>didn't want "*." to be listed to avoid seeing directory names or I didn't
>>want "*.FM" to be listed but wanted every other file extension displayed
>>(and didn't want to have to exhaustively list all the included extensions
>>separated by commas)?
>>
>As far as exclusions go, I don't know of any way to do that (Microsoft, are
>you listening? Yeah right!).  I've always wanted to exclude files as well,
>but the only way I've found is to dig around a little first and establish
>the different types of files you're looking for, then specify only the ones
>you want in the DIR command.  Maybe there's a way to do that using Linux or
>UNIX.

Maybe not of general interest, but here's the UNIX way:

  ls -1 [directory] | egrep -v '\.filetype'

e.g. "ls -1 | egrep -v '\.fm'" lists all non-"*.fm" files.

UNIX isn't easy, but quite powerful... a GUI isn't always the best solution.

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