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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: copying files
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Date: 5 Dec 90 18:40:11 GMT
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In-Reply-To: nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 5 Dec 90 02:19:51 GMT

In article <1990Dec5.021951.28104@en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:

   Do any of you UNIX wizards know how to even list all of
   the names of the files which begin '.' (besides, of course
   the files in the root (second line of list) 

I usually use .??*, which works unless you have a file like ".a" or
".Z". 

--Ed