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Date:      Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:54:57 +0800
From:      "Russell J. Wood" <rjw@dynode.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Two simple questions
Message-ID:  <20051224145457.GC21970@main.dynode.net>
In-Reply-To: <028c01c60899$7cf29910$210110ac@fortunato>
References:  <028c01c60899$7cf29910$210110ac@fortunato>

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On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:13AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide 
> them?

If you're referring to dot files, then the following will show them:

ls -a

If that is too tedious, then an alias in your shell's RC file can sort
that out (e.g. for /bin/sh: alias ls='ls -a').

- Russell



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