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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie question re:ls Date: 24 Dec 1995 10:14:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4bj95e$cs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bhkck$lga@news.ios.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 wwells@haven.ios.com (Wallace Weils) writes: > Why is it when I created a file ".nofinger" it does not appear > when I use the "ls" command? I know it's there because when I > try to edit it or delete it I get the messsage "file already > exists. These so-called `dot files' are Unix' ``hidden files''. ls normally doesn't show them, including the dot and dot-dot directory entries. The shell's wildcard expansion doesn't include them either, so if you're saying ``rm *'', they won't be affected. ls -a will show you all, ls -A will show you all except dot and dot-dot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)