Exclude System entries with "ls" or "find"

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 18 12:58:00 GMT 2018


On Dec 17 16:46, Steven Penny wrote:
> Compare Cygwin:
> 
>    $ ls -1 -N /cygdrive/c
>    $Recycle.Bin
>    cygwin64
>    Documents and Settings
>    pagefile.sys
>    PerfLogs
>    Program Files
>    Program Files (x86)
>    ProgramData
>    Recovery
>    System Volume Information
>    Users
>    Windows
> 
> With Command Prompt:
> 
>    > dir /A:-S C:
>    2018-12-08  10:14 AM    <DIR>          cygwin64
>    2009-07-13  09:20 PM    <DIR>          PerfLogs
>    2018-12-15  06:05 PM    <DIR>          Program Files
>    2018-12-15  05:21 PM    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
>    2018-10-31  06:07 PM    <DIR>          ProgramData
>    2018-11-18  01:10 AM    <DIR>          Users
>    2018-11-09  08:18 AM    <DIR>          Windows
> 
> as can be seen, Command Prompt has a way to exclude System items. Does Cygwin
> have some way to do this, perhaps with "ls" or "find"?

You're asking POSIX tools to recognize DOS attributes...


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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