how to Linux / Unix: Bash Find Matching All Dot Files

In Linux or Unix, you can use the find command with the -name option to search for files that match a specific pattern. To find all files that begin with a dot, you can use the following command:

This command will search the directory specified by /path/to/search (and all its subdirectories) for files whose names start with a dot (“.”).

You can also use -type option to search for only files and not directories

You can also search for files in the current directory and its subdirectories by using . (dot) instead of path

You can also use different patterns like -name ".*txt" to search for all files ending with .txt and so on.

You can also use wildcard to match files, for example:

This command will search for all files that match a pattern of a dot followed by any number of letters (uppercase or lowercase) in the current directory and its subdirectories.

Please note that the find command is recursive, meaning it will search through all subdirectories of the specified directory.