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# 8  
Old 12-24-2012
Thanks for your reply, Don,

I tried the following as you have mentioned in your latest reply.


Code:
$ ksh /u/home/unarayan/mvhidden_don

I get the following

mv .. .
I have the following hidden files in the path

Code:
-rw-rw-rw-   1 xyz   users  17 2012-12-21 23:07 .test~HJKL~1234~435
-rw-r--r--   1 xyz    users  15 2012-12-22 07:32 .test~ABCD~5678~123

But still the files did not get converted to unhidden one when i run your script.

I have the following in mvhidden_don

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
for i in .[^.]*
do
     echo mv "$i" "${i#.}"
done

Best Regards.
Last edited by Scott; 12-24-2012 at 01:10 PM.. Reason: Code tags
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Don Cragun
# 9  
Old 12-24-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by umesh.narain
Thanks for your reply, Don,

I tried the following as you have mentioned in your latest reply.


$ ksh /u/home/unarayan/mvhidden_don

I get the following

mv .. .
I have the following hidden files in the path

-rw-rw-rw- 1 xyz users 17 2012-12-21 23:07 .test~HJKL~1234~435
-rw-r--r-- 1 xyz users 15 2012-12-22 07:32 .test~ABCD~5678~123

But still the files did not get converted to unhidden one when i run your script.

I have the following in mvhidden_don

#!/usr/bin/ksh
for i in .[^.]*
do
echo mv "$i" "${i#.}"
done

Best Regards.
Ouch. Yes. I must have been asleep when I made that suggestion. The pattern I suggested used regular expression syntax; not pathname expansion syntax. I don't know why it did what I expected on OS X.

If you change the line:
Code:
for i in .[^.]*

to:
Code:
for i in .[!.]*

it should do what you wanted.
# 10  
Old 12-26-2012
ksh93 features perhaps?
There are two ksh standards, the old one (I forget what the year was, 1985?), and the new one - ksh93 - from 1993 obviously.
Perhaps if if added "hash-bang" ksh93 to the first script it will work the same as on OS-X.

#!/usr/bin/ksh93
....

Since we are testing things that surprise us! Smilie
# 11  
Old 12-26-2012
I tried it with various shells. ^ only worked with bash (at least 3 and up), recent ksh93 (not older ksh93) and zsh.
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