MacOS – OS X Terminal: ‘ls’ with ‘grep !’

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I would like to list all files in folder without one. I created this command ls /Users/MyName/Library/Safari | grep ! "Extensions". The problem is that the Terminal doesn't understand the not (!). How to change that it works?

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You might do it like this:

ls /path/to/folder | grep -v "Extensions"

grep -v "Extensions" excludes "Extensions" from the listing.

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There are two minor issues: First, to pipe file names to a perl one-liner in this way, you need to use the xargs command.

Second, you will need to pass the full path to the perl one-liner, because it might be in a subdir, so it would be better to use find.

Here's a working command:

find . -name "*.txt" | xargs perl -i -p -e 's/one.a/two.a/g'

MacOS – How to create terminal session independent env vars on OS 10.10

shut down and start the computer again. open the terminal and type echo $ENV_VAR and you should see the value you defined.

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