On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 20:03 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 12:18 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > >> Hi Michael, > >> > >> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > because the .* also > >> > includes .., the parent directory, which in this case is /home > >> > >> A quick question, how can one use globs to expand only dotfiles > >> without including ".."? > > > > > > $ ls \.[^.]* > > > > Thanks a lot Patrick, I had no idea ls accepted regular expressions! It doesn't. You need to read up on how the Shell works. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines