Re: OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?)

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 02:37:17PM +0000, davidson wrote:
> > $ shopt -s globstar
> > $ ls /etc/**/.[^.]*
> 
> It now occurs to me that this still omits files like /etc/.a and
> /etc/..metadotfile

It doesn't omit .a .  The * is allowed to match the empty string.

> Instead,
> 
>  $ ls /etc/**/.{.?,[^.]}*
> 
> does what I intend, which is to display all dotfiles under /etc. Seems
> unduly complicated if you ask me, but it is what it is.

find /etc -type f -name '.*'