Remove filenames beginning with multiple dots

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hi all,

I want to remove filenames beginning with multiple dots.how I can do this.

Thanks in advance

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rm ..?*

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With single dot:

rm .[^.]*
3

Hi YAZU,

Thank you for ur quick reply.

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This command doesn't work.

Try :

rm .[!.]*

Jean-Pierre.

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Another way, by quoting:

rm "....efs"
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Those quotes serve no purpose. The dot is not a sh metacharacter.

Regards,
Alister