Hey Scott, Well, to be honest, that was given to me fully formed by a friend. I suppose it means the same a .* except that there must be at least 2 characters, thus protecting "." from deletion although rm has a built in protection against deleting ".". My guess is that my friend is used to using this sort of command with all sorts of utilities, some of which maybe aren't as intelligently designed as rm. A pipe is unnecessary, as the find command can -exec the necessary action on any file that meets the test (-iname '.?*') I'll need to take a look at the .deb files you pointed out, thanks. In my experience they sometimes work and sometimes don't in Ubuntu. Hope this finds you all doing well! Sim?n
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Scott Ledyard Sent: Tue 3/6/2007 7:53 AM To: Simon Ruiz Cc: [email protected] Subject: Refresh default settings on reboot Hi Simón et al, I set this as a new thread. I enjoyed reading your article "Refresh default settings on reboot." I'm a student of the command line, so I have a question. In it you use the command: find /home/student -maxdepth 1 -iname '.?*' -exec rm -rf '{}' \; I'm okay with the first part out to '.?*' , but how does this differ from '.*" ? After that, I'm lost! Don't you pipe something here? Scott BTW, I also read your BLOG posting about SystemImager and hope my posted comment about http://svn.sisuite.org/ might help. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
