Encrypted home directory

[Guy Streeter]

Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
>> If you have that many configuration files I would say you have other
>> problems.
> 
> [alsadi at pc1 ~]$ find .* | wc -l
> 88108
> 
> this was on my gnome only machine
> what if kde and other are installed
> 

I think you want something like

find .[^.]* | wc -l

to avoid counting the files under '.' and '..'

Note also that most of the files you find that way are not config files.

Perhaps you wanted something like

ls -1 .[^.]* | wc -l
or
find . -name '.[^.]*' | wc -l

--Guy