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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: ls -A
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Date: 9 Oct 89 21:36:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)

In article <6468@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes:
| 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' .??* *

Nope.  Misses the two character files beginning with dot.  And,
whatareyagonna do about that? :-)

I still like:

  grep 'pattern' `ls -A`

but that presumes you're in a place that understands -A.

Just another UNIX hacker,
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