simple perl or unix listing quetsion: how do I list only the files and directories?

[endervalentine]

yeah, I know, sounds really stupid ... but is there a way to do a listing on a directory that will return all the files and directories without the " ", "." and ".." ?

Right now, I'm stuffing the return values into a hash table and then deleting it, figure there must be a 'cleaner' and more elegant way to do this?

 

[Nothinman]

Not really, . and .. are valid directory entries so when you do a readdir they're going to be in there.

 

[endervalentine]

hmm ... looks like ls -lA does it in unix guess I gotta use my backticks now

 

[Platypus]

ls -lA | awk '{print $8}'

gives you a list of all files/dirs without the . and ..

note, you may need to adjust the $8 to another number depending on your environment

 

[Nothinman]

hmm ... looks like ls -lA does it in unix guess I gotta use my backticks now

IMO using system()/`` is pretty ugly and should be a last resort.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I've usually just seen '.' and '..' handled with quick if statements in perl scripts.

 

[tfinch2]

IMO using system()/`` is pretty ugly and should be a last resort.

This. If you want to write shell commands, fine, just do it in a shell script.