On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:18:56AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > actually, it doesn't, since it wouldn't match the perfectly valid > ".a". it's a popular puzzle to come up with a glob that matches all > hidden thingies, without matching "." or "..". and the solution is > ... > > $ echo .[!.]* But this would miss the file ..test or any other which starts with two or more dots. And I have to admit I don't know which glob would match all :( -- Regards, Andre