[Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing

[MMP - Barb Fox]

Not that hard:
.[!.]*
This means begins with a dot, second character is NOT a dot,
followed by anything.  This would match .a, .123, etc.
Barb Fox
mmp_fox at bellsouth.net



>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.
>
>         ...Akkana