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From: jhi@hila.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: copying files
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Date: 8 Dec 90 09:23:50 GMT
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In-Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 7 Dec 90 22:29:39 GMT


> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols):
> 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) 

ls -d `ls -A|grep '^\.'`

	  ^^
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Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@hut.fi> Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Ever had one of those lives ?