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From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: copying files
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.170306.23372@onion.pdx.com>
Date: 15 Dec 90 17:03:06 GMT
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In <12758@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:

>How to list all non . and .. files/directories in the current
>directory that start with . without using pipes (Bourne shell or ksh):

>ls -ad .[!.] .??*	-or-	 echo .[!.] .??*

Well, this is one of the nicer ones that I've seen, but it won't work on all
systems.  There are several versions of 'sh' out there that don't support
[!pattern].  Unfortunately,  I use one of them. :-)

Script started on Sat Dec 15 08:58:02 1990
jo:jeff> sh
$ cd
$ touch .a .b .c
$ ls -ad .[!.]
..
jo:jeff> exit
script done on Sat Dec 15 08:58:37 1990

Sigh,

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		jeff@onion.pdx.com