Re: du

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: du
Date: 00:26 on 01 Oct 2005
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:10:46PM +0000, Smylers wrote:
> Earle Martin writes:
>=20
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:09:48PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> >=20
> > > > Do you really want to see all the stuff that starts with '.' every
> > > > time you use *?  Isn't avoiding that the whole point of the .name
> > > > convention?
> > >=20
> > > Yes, I do; I expect * to match everything.
> >=20
> > Having just read Juerd's mail, I guess I can forget about that.
>=20
> In 'Bash' you can (apparently -- I haven't tried this) do:
>=20
>   $ shopt -s dotglob
>=20
> to get what you want.  But if you do that, be careful if you ever let
> anybody else type commands at your shell prompt!


Even with dotglob set, '.' and '..' will not be matched by '*'.



Abigail

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