[wellylug] multidot filenames

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting David Antliff <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz>:
> > find ~ -iregex ".*/[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]**"
> Does find not support exclusion classes? e.g [^.]

> [^.]* \. [^.]+ \. ( [^.]+ \. )* [^.]*
> 
> or even tidier:
> 
> [^.]* ( \. [^.]+ ){2,} [^.]*
> 
> 
> That might work - untested tho.
It does - but that will match a 
/home/joebloggs/.Groupwise/.unknown_user
too, for instance, which is NOT what the OP wanted.

find ~  -iregex ".*/[^\./]*\.[^\./]+\.[^\./]*"
would work, though, thanks for pointing that out :)