Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
Posted Mar 25, 2009 22:15 UTC (Wed) by csigler (subscriber, #1224)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 .*" will have very undesirable results.
> with a ".")? "rm -rf .*" will have very undesirable results.
IIRC, you can do something like "rm -fr .[^.]*" -- at least this WFM in the command "ls -Fa .[^.]*"