Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!dan
From: dan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: copying files
Keywords: cp
Message-ID: <2763ACE5.12204@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 10 Dec 90 15:42:29 GMT
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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>| >>|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) 

The most efficient in terms of starting processes would be the following:

    alias l. 'set dotfiles = `echo .?*` ; echo $dotfiles[2-]'

So typing "l." would give a short list of all . files in a directory and
typing "ls -l $dotfiles[2-]" would give you the long format.

dan
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