Re: Wildcard for hidden files

[Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

On Saturday 21 October 2006 14:48, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (21/10/06 07:23), Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 10/21/06 07:14, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > > On (21/10/06 14:01), Chris wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> How can I list all hidden files or directories with ls?
> > >>
> > >> ls .*
> > >>
> > >> does not give the desired result.  Id like to archive all the hidden
> > >> files in my home folder.
> > >
> > > ls -al
> >
> > To get *only* (well, *mostly*) hidden files), try:
> >
> > ls -aFl | grep " \."
>
> We live and learn :)
>
> Thanks Ron
>
> Regards
>
> Clive

I know, I'm being a pain, but if I want to pipe this list to tar?  Something 
like:

tar -cvvzf test.tar.gz (ls -aFl grep " /.")

???

Thanks,

Chris

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