Thread: Shell one-liner challenge
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BlackDiamond is offline BlackDiamond
2010-08-21 , 15:59
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#12
Originally Posted by dannym View Post
Actually, files whose names start with "." in the root directory of the filesystem tree will stay then.
No, *nix isn't windows and it doesn't know anything like "name.extension" the dot is simply part of the name with no difference from any letter so * actually means 'all the files'