[OT] .* expansion (Was Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.)
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:51:52 -0400
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:26:35PM +0300, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> On Friday, 25 June 1999, Linus Torvalds writes:
> > On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > Think of it as the concept of dot-files, but taken to a higher level:
> > dot-files are there to hide the details, but quite frankly they don't do
> > all that good a job of it, and then when you occasionally want to look at
> > one of them and do the normal
> >
> > ls -ld .??*
> >
> > you end up in shock.
>
> Indeed. What about, as some of us will never forget, the horror of
>
> rm -<your favourite flags here> .??*
>
> Wouldn't it be sane to have '.*' not include the parent directory, or
It doesn't. Not on bash 1.14.7 and zsh 3.0.5, at least. I think it used to,
though I'm not sure. Besides, this is entirely a shell problem.
-- arvind
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