copying files

[Ray Nickson]

In article <2763ACE5.12204 at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> dan at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Dan Trottier) 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) 

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

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

$ mkdir foo
$ touch .a .xyz
$ set dotfiles = `echo .?*`; echo $dotfiles[2-]
[2-]

... oops, he means the CrackedShell ...

$ csh
% set dotfiles = `echo .?*`; echo $dotfiles[2-]
.a .xyz

... looks ok, but ...
% touch .-
% set dotfiles = `echo .?*`; echo $dotfiles[2-]
.. .a .xyz

Problem: . and .. don't necessarily come first in a (sorted) directory
listing!

-rgn
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Ray Nickson <Ray.Nickson at comp.vuw.ac.nz>                    + 64 4 721000x8144
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