Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
 > Another thing that has bitten me is trying to remove all my config
 > files/directories, that begin with a ".", thusly
 >  rm -rf .*
 > Luckily I had backups.

Another reason to use zsh.  :-)  The expansion of a
glob expression never contains "." or "..".

Best regards
   Oliver


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