From: buzzbomb@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: question
Date: Sat Jun 11 00:08:23 1994

how would one go about removing (and deleting all the files from) all 
directories that begin with a period? "rm -r .*" would wipe everything the 
user was authorized to wipe from the disk as far as i can tell (by 
deleting . and .., and everything beyond ..).  "rm -r .??*" would solve 
that problem but what if there was a dir called ".a" ? I don't even know 
if this is possible with one command but someone asked me and got me 
curious.