On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:45:17PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> 
> All else aside, the behavior of "rm -rf .*" is an entirely sufficient
> reason to switch from bash to zsh.

By the way, you can do this in bash with "rm -rf .[^.] .??*", but that's
just awkward.  And no, this isn't just about removing files, it's also
about ls, find, and many other commands.

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