> find .[^.]* | wc -l no it's the same as find .* | wc -l because * does not substitute leading dots for example rm -R delme/* won't remove delme/../ > ls -1 .[^.]* | wc -l this won't catch conf dirs like .gnome or .config/* > You're catching a lot with that command other than configuration > files, like browser cache, thumbnails, et al. correct, but that was intentional Frields! does any body want caches to be encrypted aren't cache are supposed to speed things up -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list