Command to list all files except . (dot) and .. (dot dot)

问题

I'm trying to find a command that would list all files (including hidden files), but must exclude the current directory and parent directory. Please help.

$ ls -a \.\..

回答1:

Read ls(1) documentation (perhaps with man ls). At least, take the habit of trying

ls --help

or better yet (since ls might be aliased, e.g. in your ~/.bashrc)

/bin/ls --help

You'll get something starting with:

Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -a, --all                  do not ignore entries starting with .
  -A, --almost-all           do not list implied . and ..
      --author               with -l, print the author of each file
  -b, --escape               print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters

etc....

You want ls -A or better yet /bin/ls -A (without any additional argument such as .*)

回答2:

I have a situation where I want to remove a series of dot-directories. In my servers we mark directories for removal adding a dot and certain other text patterns (timestamp) for automated removal. Sometimes I need to do that manually.

As I commented to Basile Starynkevitch's reply, when you use a globbing pattern like the one below the -A switch loses its function and works just as -a:

 runlevel0@ubuntu:~/scripts$ ls -1dA .*
.
..
.comparepp.sh.swp

It would most certainly give an error if I try to remove files as a user, but I just don't want to think what could happen as root (!)

My approach in this case is:

for dir in $(ls -1ad .* | tail -n +3) ; do rm -rfv $dir  ; done

I tail out the 2 first line containing the dots as you can see. To tailor the answer to the question asked this would do the job:

ls -d1A .* | tail -n +3

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22407480/command-to-list-all-files-except-dot-and-dot-dot

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