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Old 10-05-2004
Display command
With what command can you list only the hidden files of your home directory?
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Old 10-05-2004
ok, last one...now start using the man pages, apropos, or a book. Heck, try Google.

ls -a
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Old 10-05-2004
the command ls -a lists all the files including the hidden file. I'm looking for a command that lists only the hidden files in my home directory.
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Old 10-06-2004
This depends on exactly what you mean and on your shell. Taken literally,

ls -d .*

will do it. The problem with this is that . and .. get listed as well. Maybe that's not a problem, they are directories, but directories are files too.

ls -d .??*

will avoid . and .. however it also avoids stuff like .x and .y. To pick up filenames that begin with a dot but are not .. you will need a good shell. With ksh:

ls -d .??* .[!.]

will do it. Moving away from ls, here is a command that will work with a low-rent shell:

find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -name ./* -print | sed s=\./==
 
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