Curious Sunday Morning Linux File System Question ??

[Shams]

Hi,

My question would be:

Is it the kernel or the shell and other user land program eg. bash,
ls, rm responsible for hiding the dotted files?

Historically:
Now why is this not just a attribute (like the evil OS Windows does)
or permission of the file instead of using obsure file names ie. the dot
prefix to hide the file?

Thanks
Shams

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"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote in message 
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> William Case wrote:
>> Hi All;
>>
>> Just did some changes in my ~/.* ( dot files ) and started wondering why
>> Linux uses dot files for its 'user' data.  Its a small annoyance to have
>> to specify .* each time I use them.  The annoyance is primarily not
>> because it's difficult but because it is odd -- different from anything
>> else and data files get mixed (kinda) with my working documents.  Why
>> not just have a standard additional directory for 'config', or whatever
>> name, to hold all the user application type data.  Is the reason
>> historical or is there a pragmatic purpose?
>>
> This is the way Linux hides files and directories. You will notice
> that they do not show up in a normal ls listing, or in the file
> selection window of most programs. If you have your file manager set
> up not to show hidden files/directories, they will not show up there
> ether.
>
> Mikkel
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