[olug] Unix Tip: GET THE HIDDEN FILES

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			Unix Tip 2150 - November 20, 2002

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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...

This tip generously supported by: leopard at midwinter.com



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