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Date:      Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:53:57 -0600
From:      "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@crosswinds.net>
To:        "FreeBDS" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Two simple questions
Message-ID:  <02ef01c608aa$a26924a0$210110ac@fortunato>
References:  <028c01c60899$7cf29910$210110ac@fortunato> <20051224150059.GB39212@echobase.hoth.dk>

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> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to 
>> unhide
>> them?
>
> Assuming you use ls(1) to display your files the command would be
> ``ls -a'' as explained in the the manual page.
>
> Depending on your shell you can create an alias for the ls command
> which includes the -a option every time.
>
> For sh you can edit $HOME/.profile to include a line as
> alias ls="ls -a"
>
> For csh you can edit $HOME/.cshrc to include a line as
> alias ls "ls -l"
>
> -- 
> Martin P. Hansen

Thank you for such a detailed info.

Teilhard. 




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