But if you are trying to be able to browse them in a file manager, like konqueror, you can change their name with 'mv .filename filename' so they won't be "hidden" anymore. Watch out, this is not a command to unhide a file, its to move/rename files, taking out the dot from files withtout caution may cause problems since many programs writes/reads its configuration in dotted files. On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:09:58 -0400, Ben Steeves <ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:03:11 +0100, Lars <terraformers@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mark Sargent wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > what is the command in the cli/terminal to undide hidden files so as to > > > view when doing ls command..? Cheers. > > They're not hidden in the sense that the OS is purposely preventing > you from seeing them so that you won't harm them/the OS/yourself. > That's not the UNIX way. It is merely convention that files that > start with a 'dot' (.) are not displayed by most directory commands > (such as ls) or operated on by bash globs (for example, "cat *"). > > The hiding is not intrinsic to the operating system or the file > system. You can tell any application (such as ls) to over ride its > normal behavior of not operating on the "dot-files". In the explicit > case of 'ls', that switch is '-a'. > > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
