Unhiding Hidden Files from cli

[Bolívar Mena]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:03:11 +0100, Lars <terraformers at gmx.net> 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'.
> 
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