Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 18:47:35 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: showing hidden files by default Message-ID: <20060511174735.GC5531@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20060511172030.81600.qmail@web25006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060511172030.81600.qmail@web25006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 06:20:30PM +0100, Robert Davison wrote: > I've been running 6.1 RC-1 for a couple of weeks with > no problem. I've just installed a fresh copy of 6.1 > roduction and when logging in as root am able to see > (.)hidden files when running the 'ls' command. Is this > normal, or is there something that I need to change to > ensuer that the (.) files stay hidden unless i use ls -a This is the normal behaviour. To disable it, say `ls -I' (without the quotes). man ls for more tasty morsels! Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEY3i3ixf5fBYiFmoRAk6sAKCBqrchdacS0JKm3mSmZv8MCx6DJACeOxGP N+r/pfc/OWM/F/RmXPBUeB4= =AgaG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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