Display only files starting with . (hidden)

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I tried to display only hidden files but don't know how to do it.

That is working (but matching also dots in other places)

ls -la | grep '\.'

Was trying adding ^ but didn't find the solution.

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ls -ld .* will do what you want.

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You'll have to "prune" the directories you don't want to recurse into:

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Usually -prune is used with -o because it returns true, so when combined with short-circuit OR, it has the effect of skipping the -print on hidden files / directories, which is exactly what you want.

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The straightforward way :

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \! -name '.*'

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