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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 25, 2009 23:05 UTC (Wed) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by rsidd
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

> How do you remove all your configuration files and directories
> (that begin with a ".")?

`rm -rf .??*` is a good start. It will miss configuration files with only
one or two characters after the dot, but I've not found any program using
such yet...


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