copying files

[Ray Shwake]

rouben at math13.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:

>In article <1990Dec5.021951.28104 at en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:
>|
>|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) 
>|

>Try
>	ls -d .*

	For some users on some systems, this will list both current directory
(.) and parent directory (..), which is not what is required. Try instead:

	ls -d .??*