> >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. :)
Or if we are just trying to have fun with one line scripting...
for i in $(echo '.*');do test -f $i && echo $i; done
And the output of the for...done loop can itself be used as input to
other commands.
mv $(for i in $(echo '.*');do test -f $i && echo $i; done) /path/dir/
But that might trigger an ARG_MAX limit. Better to use xargs.
for i in $(echo '.*');do test -f $i && echo $i; done \
| xargs --no-run-if-empty mv --target-directory /path/dir
Bob
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