On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, you wrote: >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. "shopt -s dotglob" seems to work in Bash... ************ techtalk at linuxchix.org http://www.linuxchix.org