duuuuh....I knew that - but I can only remember it when my brain is
functioning
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 13:39, you wrote:
> add an "a" to the command to see hidden files. What are hidden files you
> ask, they are files that start with "."
>
> so to see hidden files type "ls -a" or "ls -la"
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Davidm
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim [mailto:farli@unitywave.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:09 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Regular Expression Case Sensitivity
> >
> >
> > The 'rm' only asked me if i wanted to delete aaaa and bbbb,
> > as it should.
> > The really interesting thing that I found is that ls and ls-l
> > never showed me
> > the .abcd file.
> >
> > On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:54, you wrote:
> > > Try this in an empty directory and let me know if this is a bug or a
> > > feature or an error on my part.
> > >
> > > Create several files of upper and lower case names:
> > >
> > > touch aaaa
> > > touch AAAA
> > > touch bbbb
> > > touch BBBB
> > > touch 1234
> > > touch .abcd
> > >
> > > Now use a regular expression to delete all files starting
> >
> > with a lower case
> >
> > > letter:
> > >
> > > rm [a-z]*
> > >
> > > When I was experimenting with this all of the files
> >
> > starting with *any*
> >
> > > alphabetic character were deleted. This was unexpected and
> >
> > I'm not sure if
> >
> > > I am misinterpreting the regular expression or if I am
> >
> > delusional. Let me
> >
> > > know what you get. FYI, I am using Red Hat Linux 7.2 so I would be
> > > interested if it's just me.
> > >
> > > Brian
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