Regex - match string to find hidden files on linux

[office politics]

HELP!

I'm looking to create a regex pattern that produces matches for hidden files on linux.

pattern i think should work
/\\home\\theusr\\\.?

string to match is the following (note the slashes are backslashes, the backups system uses these strings)
/\home\theusr\.hidden
/\home\theusr\.hidden2

but not
/\home\theusr\nothidden.txt


i found these links

Regular Expressions - a Simple User Guide


Senior Advisor - http://www.unix.com

 

[kmote]

try
find /home/theuser -name '.*'

 

[office politics]

I can't. I'm using a backup application that allows regex pattern matching. The goal is to exclude all files except any that are hidden. The dialog box has a check box for negate. So if I enter a regex pattern for the hiddens and check the box for negate, all will be good.

I've tried /\\home\\theusr\\\.*, but it produces a match for all files in the directory.

 

[kmote]

It would, yeah. Try
/\\home\\theusr\\\..*

 

[office politics]

dang it, i turn my head for a couple minutes and look what happens, lol. we came to the same conclusion. /\\home\\theusr\\\..*

good work.