ls -A

[Peter da Silva]

I said,
> grep 'pattern' .??* *

Would exclude . and .. from a search.

In article <602 at buster.irby.com> rli at buster.irby.com (Buster Irby) writes:
>Sorry Peter, but you just flunked your Unix Wizards Test!

And goes on to point out that I'm skipping all 2-character names beginning
with '.', like '.a' for example.

Yes, I know that. But in practical terms '.??* *' is good enough, and a
lot easier to type. I can't recall ever seeing a file that would match
'.?'.
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