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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: copying files
Keywords: cp
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Date: 5 Dec 90 13:46:17 GMT
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>Here is a listing of my home directory...

[listing deleted]
>
>ls .*                         all of the dot files, then all files
>                              in my directory and the previous.

This is, as someone I know would say, something else that's wrong with csh.
(Right Paul? Of course any shell he'd write wouldn't have that problem :-))

The problem with a simple .* is that "." and ".." also qualify as .*'s,
and as you know, they stand for your current and parent directories.

>Any other suggestions?

Sure - try :

ls .[A-z]*

This should find most of the files you want. The only problems with this
are if you have directories that begin with a "." (i.e .NeXT), and files
that for some reason are outside the range of A-z and that you would like
to list. 


			-Kartik


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