Desktop problem

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Sun Aug 15 02:28:32 UTC 2010


On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote:
> You must know that
> .* matches
> the directory .
> and the directory ..
>
> To wit:
>
> $ echo .*
> . ..  .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl
>
> Notice . and .. ???

Yup, and they are unaffected using this script.

> If you want to pick up onlythe dot files, then use
> .[a-zA-Z]*
>
> $ echo .[a-zA-Z]*
> .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl
> I have a bazillion dot files in my home dir. I only copied and pasted a few.

Totally unnecessary, but if it makes you feel better, go for it.

TC


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