[plug] hidden files

[Jon Miller]

actually I did use the find command 
# find / -name ".*"  
This lists the files to screen, after that I added > filename  to have the output piped to a file.

Thanks

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> ben at leftclick.com.au 10:42:09 AM 20/08/2003 >>>

Richard Meyer wrote:

>find / -name .* -print
>
>This will scan the whole directory structure for everything whose name
>starts with a ".", and print the result.
>  
>

Sorry Richard, that won't work for 2 reasons-

1. the shell will expand the * before it executes find, making the 
params for find incorrect, and
2. even if you quoted or escaped the ".*", the find will also find the 
"." and ".." entries of each directory, which happen to start with a 
".", thereby finding every directory in the system.

You might have to play around with the -regex option or something. (This 
is assuming that you meant "files with names that start with a dot" when 
you say "hidden files")

Regards,
Ben

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