Re: Wildcard for hidden files

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net>]

Chris wrote:

> On Monday 23 October 2006 17:38, Bob McGowan wrote:
>  
>
> > 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.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >      
> > Chris,
> >
> > I've been through the list of posts responding to your question and saw
> > that you did find one that worked.
> >
> > What I didn't see was a pure wildcard solution, so here's my
> > contribution to answering the question of how many sysadmins does it
> > take....
> >
> > ls .[!.]*
> >
> >    
> Wow. Ok.  That gives me the directories and their contents too.
>
> For my purposes, which was listing and archiving all settings in a home 
> directory the  suggestion by Tim worked well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>  
Hate to add, but if you use 'ls -d' with the wildcard above, the 
contents of the directories are not included.  I suppose we all have 
some sysadmin in us somewhere. :-)

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Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque