On 7/22/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:42 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > > What's wrong with > > $ ls -d .* > > ? > > If, for some weird reason, there are a huge number of dot files, > it could overflow the "glob expansion buffer" > > $ dir /data/temp/* > bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
Which means the best thing might be to fall back on what first came to mind for me: $ find . -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' -ls -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com