Re: moves dot files to different directory

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman.ddts.net> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote:
> | hello all-
> | I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can
> | i select only these files and not the standard files.
> | 
> | ls .* doesn't seem to work.
>
> It does (but without "-a" you won't see them), but it includes '.' and
> '..' also :-) (you don't want to 'cp -r' those).
>
>
> ls -ad ~/.[^.]*

>From man ls,

       -A, --almost-all
              do not list implied . and ..

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>


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