Re: [MLUG] minor annoyance with '..' files

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Or, 

rm ..?*

The '?' only matches chars, I believe.

Dave Lloyd

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> It depends upon what letter follows.  I have always done something like
> 
> ls ..[a-z]* ..[A-Z]*
> 
> but that depends upon the 3rd character being a letter.
> 
> Mike Miller wrote:
> > 
> > I have some files that begin with '..' (don't ask, I have no idea).
> > Anyway, it seems very difficult to produce a directory listing of just
> > those files.  These approaches always show the those files, but they also
> > show files in the parent directory:
> > 
> > ls ..*
> > ls ./..*
> > ls $PWD/..*
> > 
> > It looks like it could be very dangerous to attempt to delete them using a
> > wildcard!
> > 
> > Is there a way to limit output of ls (or rm) to files within the
> > directory?  Some other trick?
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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