Muayyad AlSadi wrote: >> If you have that many configuration files I would say you have other >> problems. > > [alsadi@pc1 ~]$ find .* | wc -l > 88108 > > this was on my gnome only machine > what if kde and other are installed > I think you want something like find .[^.]* | wc -l to avoid counting the files under '.' and '..' Note also that most of the files you find that way are not config files. Perhaps you wanted something like ls -1 .[^.]* | wc -l or find . -name '.[^.]*' | wc -l --Guy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list