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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ls -A
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Date: 9 Oct 89 02:13:42 GMT
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In article <1989Oct8.212100.12355@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>What about
>when I do want to grep all of the files (but not . and ..) in the
>current directory?  Shell globbing alone is not sufficient for this
>where .files exist.

grep 'pattern' .??* *
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