[olug] Unix Tip: GET THE HIDDEN FILES

[Trent Melcher]

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
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> 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
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