[olug] Unix Tip: GET THE HIDDEN FILES

[Jeremy Bettis]

If you are using ls then use ls -A simpler and more reliable.


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Jeremy Bettis, Software Development Manager
HKS Medical Information Systems, Inc.
jeremyb at hksys.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trent Melcher [mailto:tmelcher at trilogytel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:58 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: RE: [olug] Unix Tip: GET THE HIDDEN FILES
> 
> Just use it with the ls command:  ls .??*
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-admin at olug.org [mailto:olug-admin at olug.org] On Behalf Of CM
> Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:20 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] Unix Tip: GET THE HIDDEN FILES
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone give an example on how to use this '.??*'
> 
> 
> I'm familiar with find and slocate but not the command
> above.
> 
> thanks
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> > GET THE HIDDEN FILES
> >
> > A safe way of grabbing all "hidden" files is to use
> > '.??*'
> > rather than '.*' since this will only match 3 or
> > more
> > characters.  Admittedly, this will miss any hidden
> > files
> > that are only a single character after the ., but it
> > will always miss '.' & '..', which is probably more important...
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