cp hidden files with glob patterns
Situation :
wildcards
How to delete all files in a current directory starting with a dot?
I use Ubuntu 14.04 and in a terminal I became root with sudo su and I wanted to delete root’s trash manually. It deleted everything except for a few files that start with a dot. Like .htaccess etc. So I went to that directory (which is “files”) and I ran this command:
Is the behaviour of .* to include . and .. defined in LSB or POSIX or some other specification?
Is the behavior of .* to include . and .. defined in LSB or POSIX or some other specification?
Is it possible to change the order of a glob?
I am trying to show all instances of a particular message from the syslog in chronological order by doing something like the following:
Why should ‘Character Classes’ be preferred over ‘Character Ranges’ In Shell (Bash)?
The Linux Command Line (Book – page count 47) says:
Is it possible to reference the most recently modified file in a command line argument?
I frequently download PDF files with heinous numeric file names from my browser. These automatically go into ~/Downloads. Ideally I would like to just be able to open these files with:
Working of rm/ls with [0-9]
I am learning the shell commands and came across the short tags eg.[0-9],[[:digit:]] etc.. As a proof of concept i tried deleting all the files with the rm command(i know its not a good practise but i am trying to understand how things work),like this
Copy only directories with .mp3 files with rsync
I’m trying to copy only folders with .mp3 files in them to another device. And only the .mp3s in them.
The structure looks like this:
Zip all files in directory?
Is there a way to zip all files in a given directory with the zip command? I’ve heard of using *.*, but I want it to work for extensionless files, too.
How can I remove all symbolic links with a special target?
With the command: