copying files

[Don Christensen]

chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:

>>In article <1990Dec5.021951.28104 at en.ecn.purdue.edu>
> nichols at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) asks how to match `.*' without
> matching . and .. (in essence, anyway).

>In article <EMV.90Dec5104011 at crane.aa.ox.com> emv at ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>>I usually use .??*, which works unless you have a file like ".a" or
>>".Z". 

>with `.'.  You want all but `..'.  If any such files exist, the pattern

>	.[^A--/-^?]

>will match them.  Note: ^A here represents a literal control-A, and
>^? represents either a literal DEL (if you have only 7-bit shells and
>files) or meta-DEL (if you have 8-bit shells and files).

I typically use .??* because it is the easiest to type and I have rarely
(never?) come across a two character `.' file.  It seems to me, though,
that the shortest way to get all `.' files excluding `.' and `..' is
with the following expression:

ls -d .[^.]*


Don
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