From: william E Davidsen (davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM)
Date: 10/15/92


From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Subject: Re: ! on the command line?
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:54:51 GMT

In article <718857952snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>, jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:

| file * | sed '/text/!d'
|
| to list only those files which are text files of some sort.

a) sounds like a bug to me
b) did you run it as sh or bash? Some things change
c) you can disable this with an option (which I can't remember)
d) or use sed -n '/text/p'
e) or grep 'text'

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