[Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing

[Kathryn Hogg]

Akkana Peck said:
> When I want to access all the dotfiles in the current directory,
> but not . or .., I use this pattern: .??*
> In English, that means: "Everything that begins with a dot, then
> has at least two additional characters after the dot."
>
> Of course, this won't match files like .a, which doesn't bother me.
> You could make a pattern which would also match such files, but
> it would be more difficult to type, whereas .??* is very easy.

the pattern .[^.]*  will make every file that stops with a dot but has a
non-dot for a second character

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Kathryn
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