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Find all dot files and directories

Terminal - Find all dot files and directories
ls -a | egrep "^\.\w"
2009-11-11 18:19:56
User: kulor
Functions: egrep ls
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Find all dot files and directories

trying to copy all your dotfiles from one location to another, this may help

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echo .*
2009-11-21 04:07:28
User: unixmonkey7109
Functions: echo
Tags: egrep ls dotfiles
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ls -d .*
2009-11-23 15:58:52
User: yooreck
Functions: ls
Tags: egrep ls dotfiles
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printf "%s\n" .*
2009-11-20 21:41:02
User: cfajohnson
Functions: printf
Tags: egrep ls dotfiles
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printf "%s\n" .*
2009-11-23 18:07:18
User: cfajohnson
Functions: printf
Tags: dotfiles
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In most modern shells, printf is a builtin command.

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What others think

This is possible with 'find', but is quite verbose:

find -maxdepth 1 -regex '^\./\..*' -printf '%f\n' | sort

piping through 'sort' to match default output of 'ls'.

Comment by pysquared 184 weeks and 1 day ago

If the goal of "\w" in the regexp is to avoid listing . and .. then ls has the -A option.

Comment by rbossy 184 weeks and 1 day ago
ls -1d .*

no need grep here...

Or simply $ ls .[tab]

Comment by sputnick 184 weeks and 1 day ago

@pysquared considered find but as you mentioned, it is a bit to verbose.

@rbossy the goal of the \w is to filter the results to return only dotfiles and folders but exclude '.' & '..' at the same time.

The following code does not work in the context of searching dotfiles

'ls -aA .*'

@sputnick

ls -1d .*

.

..

So I would still need to inverse grep the results anyway

Comment by kulor 184 weeks and 1 day ago
ls -1d .[[:alnum:]]*
Comment by sputnick 184 weeks and 1 day ago

@sputnick nice one

Comment by kulor 184 weeks and 1 day ago

@kulor: c'mon, if you use -A instead of -a, the \w in the regexp is useless.

@sputnik: I think it does not exclude . and ..

Comment by rbossy 184 weeks ago

@pysquared: -name ".*". No need regex.

Comment by unixmonkey7109 183 weeks ago

@unixmonkey7109: I tried -name ".*", but it does not exclude ".".

Comment by pysquared 182 weeks and 6 days ago

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