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Re: moves dot files to different directory



On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
| 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 ..

Sure, but if you're trying to test your globbing before running
'cp -ar', it isn't helpful :-).  Of course, 'echo' could also be used
to test the globbing.  :-).

-D

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