How do I select all the hidden files in the console?

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How do I select all hidden files in a directory? ls .* selects the current folder - ., as well as it's parent ... I just want the hidden files

zagrimsan · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-09T08:06:22.773

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ls .[^.]* will show you all entries that start with a dot and are followed by a non-dot character, thus skipping both current (since it has only the leading dot, nothing following that) and parent directories. It will also show the content of hidden directories, and if that is not wanted, ls -d .[^.]* will omit the contents of hidden folders.

If you only want the hidden files in the current directory, find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name ".*" will do exactly that.

edited Jan 09 '14 at 08:06

answered Jan 09 '14 at 07:57

zagrimsan

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and it will especially show the the entire contents of all hidden directories ... – Bananguin Jan 09 '14 at 07:59
@Bananguin, indeed, I've updated my answer to take that into account. – zagrimsan Jan 09 '14 at 08:07
whereas ls -d .[^.]* does what you intended it to do ... – Bananguin Jan 09 '14 at 08:34
Clarification: the * is not a quantifier applied to [^.] like in a regular expression, but the bash syntax for "anything" instead. – giorgiosironi Oct 06 '16 at 10:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 09 '14 at 08:19

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Here is one way to do it:

ls -dAF .* | egrep -v '/$'

answered Jan 09 '14 at 08:19

cuonglm

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How do I select all the hidden files in the console?

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