Re: Wildcard for hidden files

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

On Saturday 21 October 2006 18:30, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 05:31:11PM +0200, Chris wrote:
> > 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 " /.")
> >
> > ???
>
> Who said so ? That you are a pain? :-)
>
> You are a pleasure since I know the best way to do it. :-)
>
> tar -cvvzf test.tar.gs ( find . -name ".*" -maxdepth 1 -type f)
>
> Happy? :-)

Thanks!  I am glad to see that this isn't really trivial, judging from the 
various different responses I'm getting.  I thought this could be a simple on 
liner, but it looks more like something one would want to save in a script.

and, yes, this makes me happy in a small but significant way (if it works!!).

Chris

>
> regards,
> Girish

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C. Hurschler