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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4169- July 11, 2012
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GET THE HIDDEN FILES 
A safe way of grabbing all "hidden" files is to use '.??*'
 rather than '.*' since this will only match 3 or more
 characters.  Admittedly, this will miss any hidden files
 that are only a single character after the ., but it
 will always miss '.' & '..', which is probably more
 important...
 
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