[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Andreas Eder]

On Fr 12 Jan 2024 at 20:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:

> Ah, true. I suppose that could be added as a new kind of wildcard option 
> to the existing wildcard syntax. After all, there is no shortage of 
> characters that are currently illegal in filespecs, that could be used. ;)
>
> For those who are wondering about the usefulness of this on *nix systems, 
> here
>
>     ls -ld ~/.[!.]*
>
> is a command to list all dotfiles/dotdirectories in my home directory.

I think you meant

>     ls -ld ~/.[^.]*

'Andreas