On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 06:38:31PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Kusalananda wrote on Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 06:09:54PM +0100: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 05:48:44PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > >> +.Dl du -sh * .??* | sort -h > > > Why the ".??*"? That would miss single (well, double) letter hidden > > directory names like .a, .b etc. > > True, but those are very uncommon in practice. > This is not supposed to be something that is perfect for each > and every occasion, but just an example that is easy to type > in interactive use and usually good enough. Also, it is quite > obvious that .??* won't match ".a". > > > As far as I know, neither ksh(1) nor sh(1) expands .* to .. > > (which I assume the ?? in .??* is a precaution against). > > I have no intention of ensnaring users of other shells: > > $ uname -a > OpenBSD isnote.usta.de 6.6 GENERIC.MP#583 amd64 > $ csh -c 'echo .*' > . ..
Ah, you are correct. I see that it's a slight mischance that I've never had to use csh(1). Regards, -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM Uppsala University, Sweden .
