"Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can > i select only these files and not the standard files. > > ls .* doesn't seem to work.
Really? It does for me (or at least 'ls -d .*'). 'ls -a' will list all files, even if their names begin with .. You want to be a bit careful trying to do this sort of thing, since both . (the current directory) and .. (the parent directory) begin with . as well. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
