Around 12:54pm on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:15 +0100, Cannon, Andrew C wrote: > > Mark, > > > > In *nix space, all files that start with a dot are classed as 'hidden' > > files. Thus, they won't be normally viewable. It may be possible to > > change the view settings in your chosen application, but this probably > > changes from application to application. > > This is in fact merely a convention of the "ls" program, not of the *nix > systems themselves. The fact that some other apps have chosen to follow > it (including many of the file choosers out there) doesn't alter this. It's more than just a ls convention. However I agree it is just a convention, the files are intrinsically different from "normal" files. Interestingly, Windows treats dot files as hidden files, and you can view/hide them from Folder Options in Windows Explorer. From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 - http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext97/jarg400.htm ":dot file: [Unix] /n./ A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on Unix, files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)." Also from man bash: match-hidden-files (On) This variable, when set to On, causes readline to match files whose names begin with a ‘.’ (hidden files) when performing filename completion, unless the leading ‘.’ is supplied by the user in the filename to be completed. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_ No MS products were used in the creation of this message 18:38:53 up 23 days, 6:01, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.06
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