[olug] Unix Tip: GET THE HIDDEN FILES

[CM Miller]

I agree with Jeremy and I feel that this example was a
poor and confusing, but at least generated discussion.

Looks like ls .??* shows everything and descends into
directories and shows their contents.  

-Chris  


--- Jeremy Bettis <jeremyb at hksys.com> wrote:
> If you are using ls then use ls -A simpler and more
> reliable.
> 
> 
> --
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Unix Guru Universe <listserv at ugu.com> wrote:
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> > >
> >
>
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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
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