What we did at UBZ

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:40:26PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Which means:
> 
> # grep -R "foo" *
> 
> does what you want. ie. it doesn't grep your revision history.

Yeah, agreed, that is one reason to choose hidden files.

Matching non _ is moderately easy in the standard shell:

	du  -sh [^_]*
	ls -d [^_]*
	grep -R foo [^_]*

But still not for newbs/casual/non-unix users.

Matt