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From: fenn@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Fennell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: copying files
Keywords: cp
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.230153.14856@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 90 23:01:53 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.021951.28104@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <4615@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <169@raysnec.UUCP>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <169@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>rouben@math13.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>
>>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) 
>>|
>
>>Try
>>	ls -d .*
>
>	For some users on some systems, this will list both current directory
>(.) and parent directory (..), which is not what is required. Try instead:
>
>	ls -d .??*

ls -dal `ls -da .* | grep -v '^\.$' | grep -v '^\.\.$' `

sheeeeeesh