Re: For the love of GOD!!!
On 7/22/05, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:42 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> > What's wrong with
> > $ ls -d .*
> > ?
>
> If, for some weird reason, there are a huge number of dot files,
> it could overflow the "glob expansion buffer"
>
> $ dir /data/temp/*
> bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
Which means the best thing might be to fall back on what first came to
mind for me:
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' -ls
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Michael A. Marsh
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http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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