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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: copying files
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.134022.14394@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 27 Dec 90 13:40:22 GMT
References: <4914@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <110253@convex.convex.com> <1990Dec11.125018.12274@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <110398@convex.convex.com> <8492@star.cs.vu.nl> <1691@erhs40.UUCP> <3658@jaytee.East.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Organization: Environment Canada
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In article <3658@jaytee.East.Sun.COM> msf@rotary.Central.Sun.COM (Mike Fischbein) writes:
>
>To list all the .* files except for . and .. why not use the standard
>ls option -A, viz:
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>ls -Ad .*
>

   1) -A is not "standard" at least not on our IRIX machines

   2) -A lists . and .. on our suns despite what man purports
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Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
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