>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The "find" suggestion is more interesting, perhaps. Maybe the
> output of the find commands should be piped into something like
> "grep '^[-A-Za-z0-9./_]*$'" or whatever, and that operated on
> using xargs. Whatever.
You allow filenames beginning with "-" in your regexp. Isn't that
dangerous? Try this:
mkdir /tmp/test
cd /tmp/test
touch a b c d e
echo x > -l
ls
ls *
I don't know whether such a filter is needed. If yes, something like
"grep '^[A-Za-z0-9./_][-A-Za-z0-9./_]*$'" might be better.
Regards,
Reinhard
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