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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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.

That's a good one.  You can also combine based on ASCII ordering:

ls ..[A-z]*

Or extend to include digits:

ls ..[0-z]*

or even farther to include the whole range of charcters:

ls ..[\ -~]*

That range from space to tilde seems to include all letters, numbers and
other characters.  I made some files and it seems to work.

man ascii


On Tue, 1 May 2001, Dave Lloyd wrote:

> Or,
>
> rm ..?*
>
> The '?' only matches chars, I believe.


It looks like you are right, Dave.  It worked every time.

Mike

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