2 Comments on “What argument to the -name flag of find will match files or directories beginning with a ‘.’ (peri”

1. Roy says:

   November 25, 2014 at 2:09 pm

   [.]* also works

   
   
   
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2. Busindre says:

   June 12, 2016 at 12:01 am

   wrong answer: find . -name “.\*”
   correct answer: find . -name “.*”

   
   
   
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