[techtalk] Filename star

[Cynthia Dale]

I haven't tried it, but I hear mc (midnight commander?) is good for this
type of thing.
Cindy

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Britta Koch wrote:

> On 29.12.99 at 14:06 Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> 
> >A nice enough solution (you forgot to claim that you followed the advice of an
> >earlier thread about sys-adminning and "did not panic" :-) ). Bad luck if you
> >had a few hundred files dot-files in the directory, though, since these would
> >be sorted before the '*' file. 
> 
> No, rm * (or ls * or whatever) does _not_ match .* - you have to explicitly use .* -
> at least on bash! If there is a switch/flag/whatever to make * match .*, I'd be curious to
> know, though.
> 
> Britta
> 
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Cynthia J. Dale
Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer
Red Hat, Inc.

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