> >To ignore . and .., use -A (almost all). I also figured that
> >directories weren't needed, so grepped for regular files. Then used sed
> >to print only the 9th word.
> >
> >ls -Ald ~/.??* | grep '^-' | sed 's/^\([^ ]*[ ]*\)\{8,8\}\([^ ]*\)/\2/'
>
> ls -Ald ~/.[^.]* | grep '^-' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f9
> It is not that much shorter, but it sure is prettier at least to my eyes. :)
I prefer find myself.
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -print
Or, as the original question was how to move all hidden files to a
different directory, this is one way.
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -print0 \
| xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty mv --target-directory /path/to/dir
Bob
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