Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:08:10 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? Message-ID: <201008292108.10551.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100829213459.ba11c3b8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <864oedkzck.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <20100829213459.ba11c3b8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sunday 29 August 2010, Polytropon wrote: > The "problem" (i. e. a convention) is that .* is not part of *, > which includes everything else, even "nothing", and the > form *.* (that looks like the DOS equivalent of "all files") > does seem to omit .*; the spaced form * .* would work as it > contains * (which does not contain .*) and .* (not in *). :-) The problem with using .* as a wildcard for hidden files is that it will include .. which is almost certainly not what you want. For example rm -r .* can be disastrous. A safer wildcard for hidden dotfiles and everything else could be .[^.]* * -- Mike Clarke
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