What we did at UBZ

[Martin Pool]

On 18 Nov 2005, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:34, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> > > $archive/
> > >   .storage/
> >
> > I hate hidden files. They're not matched by * in my shell, so some
> > commands like "rm foo/bar/*" or "mv foo/bar/* other/dir/",
> > "du -sh *" ... fail.
> 
> I realise we've decided that .bzr should become _,+=HERE_BE_DRAGONS=+,_, but I 
> thought I'd just mention another reason why I like . files.
> 
> They're not matched by * in my shell.

Under zsh with 'setopt extended_glob' you can say 

  du -sh *(D)

the (D) turns on GLOB_DOTS, meaning that . at the start of a filename is
not treated specially for globbing.  zsh is highly worth learning.

-- 
Martin
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