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

["Dooley, Ryan " <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You can also just list the hidden files with

$ ls -ldF .??*

or use whatever your favorite options are instead of -ldF

Cheers,
	Ryan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Pecaut [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:15 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] minor annoyance with '..' files
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:05:39PM -0500, Finn, Michael wrote:
> > Slightly off Mike's topic but...
> > 
> > My problem was somebody FTP'ed "backup" files from our 
> Winblow server that
> > had a file extension of ".$$$" ... try to remove those 
> simply... I couldn't
> > get them without getting the current original file they 
> were backing up...
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 16:01
> > To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] minor annoyance with '..' files
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Put what you don't want the shell to expand in single quotes:
> 
> $ touch '..beer'
> $ ls -l '..'*
> -rw-r--r--  1 pecautm  pecautm  0 May  1 16:12 ..beer
> $ rm -i '..'*
> remove ..beer? y
> 
> -Mark
> 
> > > 
> > > Mike
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