Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.user > #234918

OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?)

Show all headers | View raw

On Thu, 6 May 2021 davidson wrote:
[dd]
> To that end, I can occasionally do something like
>
> $ ls -Rp | less
>
> and make a point of examining the first couple of things that look
> unfamiliar.
>
> This misses out dotfiles.
[dd]
> So when I look for what I'm missing out on, and do...
>
> $ shopt -s globstar
> $ ls /etc/**/.[^.]*

It now occurs to me that this still omits files like /etc/.a and
/etc/..metadotfile

Instead,

  $ ls /etc/**/.{.?,[^.]}*

does what I intend, which is to display all dotfiles under /etc. Seems
unduly complicated if you ask me, but it is what it is.

I can feel it coming on: Someone is going to tell me to just use find.

Talk about unduly complicated! And I don't want to.

>
> ...then I find
>
> * /etc/.pwd.lock, clearly an exception to the /etc profile above
> * various ".placeholder" files, also clear exceptions
> * model (eponymous) home directory config files under /etc/skel
> * some ".depends.*" files in /etc/init.d/ which are not init scripts
[dd]

-- 
Ce qui est important est rarement urgent
et ce qui est urgent est rarement important
-- Dwight David Eisenhower

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-04 08:20 +0200
  Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-05-04 10:10 +0200
    Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-04 10:20 +0200
    Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-04 11:20 +0200
      Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 00:50 +0200
      Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2021-05-05 03:10 +0200
        Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 03:20 +0200
          Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 03:40 +0200
          Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 04:40 +0200
          Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-05 04:40 +0200
            Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 04:50 +0200
              Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-05 05:10 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 05:20 +0200
            Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 13:30 +0200
              Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 16:00 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-05-08 09:30 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-09 05:10 +0200
              Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-05 17:40 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 18:00 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 18:10 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-05 21:30 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-06 05:30 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-05-06 04:50 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2021-05-06 16:00 +0200
                OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock  ?) davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2021-05-06 16:40 +0200
                Re: OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail,  /etc/.pwd.lock ?) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-06 16:50 +0200
                Re: OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail,  /etc/.pwd.lock ?) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-07 06:30 +0200
                Re: OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail,  /etc/.pwd.lock ?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-07 09:40 +0200
                Re: OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail,  /etc/.pwd.lock ?) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-05-07 10:50 +0200
                Re: OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail,  /etc/.pwd.lock ?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-07 11:20 +0200
              Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-09 06:20 +0200
                Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2021-05-09 12:00 +0200

csiph-web