[olug] Unix Tip: To grab all hidden files

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To grab all 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...

We can use .[a-zA-Z0-9]* to grab 
all hidden files other 
than .  and ..  we will not get 
hidden files which dont have any 
alphanumeric character following 
the first '.' - can someone tell 
how to go about this


This tip generously supported by: muraliaj at synopsys.com




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