copying files

Dan Trottier dan at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Tue Dec 11 02:42:29 AEST 1990


>| >>|Do any of you UNIX wizards know how to even list all of
>| >>|the names of the files which begin '.' (besides, of course
>| >>|the files in the root (second line of list) 

The most efficient in terms of starting processes would be the following:

    alias l. 'set dotfiles = `echo .?*` ; echo $dotfiles[2-]'

So typing "l." would give a short list of all . files in a directory and
typing "ls -l $dotfiles[2-]" would give you the long format.

dan
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