Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Michael Ewan wrote: > >> Most folks learn the syntax AFTER doing 'rm -fr .*' trying to remove dot >> files. They also end up removing the parent directory (..). I hope that >> wasn't your experience. > > Michael, > > No, it wasn't. I noticed that I was not including the dot files in the > tarball, and my Google searches didn't help. Galen looked in his UNIX > reference book and sent me the proper syntax. I don't have that book and the > ones I do have don't include this gem.
That book would be Unix Power Tools. The suggested expression for matching all dot files under Bourne-like shells is '.?? .[!.]' An alternative is '.?? .[^.]' Note that some ancient shells may not support this syntax. -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
