topic Re: dot files in Operating System - HP-UX

dot files

nightwich — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:38:55 GMT

How to list all files that start whit a dot ( ex .aj .cshrc etc ) from one directories and is sub-directories

Re: dot files

Pete Randall — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:43:30 GMT

find /startdir -name ".*"

Pete

Re: dot files

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:55:30 GMT

>>find /startdir -name ".*"

The problem there is that it'll pick up ".." as well, which is probably not wanted.

Try this:

find /startdir -name ".[a-zA-Z0-9]*"

The above will find any dotfile that starts with a lower case letter, upper case letter, or a digit.

Re: dot files

nightwich — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:05:07 GMT

I already have tried those options but without the ("). That was the problem.

Thanks for the answer ten points !!

Best regards.

Re: dot files

Dennis Handly — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:08:38 GMT

>Patrick: find /startdir -name ".[a-zA-Z0-9]*"

Or use the following to exclude the ".": -name ".[!.]*"

This won't find "..abc". To get those:
\( -name ".[!.]*" -o -name "..?*" \)