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From: "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@crosswinds.net>
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>> Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> > What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to
>> > unhide them?
>> >
>> > Teilhard.
>
> Micah's response is correct, but just an additional comment.
> In FreeBSD UNIX, there are really no 'hidden' files.   They are
> all just files with names in a specific style - in most cases that
> means they start with a dot (.).   They are no different than other
> file names as far as UNIX is concerned.   They are no 'hidden' to
> keep you from seeing them or doing things with them as in MS.
>
> But, because most of the time you do not want to waste display time
> or space looking at those file names when you list files, many utilities
> such as ls do not show then by default - they skip over them.   In almost
> all cases, to get those utilities to show them in their listings, you
> just need to use a flag on the command - the -a flag in the case of ls.

Thanks. One has to learn how to detatch oneself from Windows, huh?

Teilhard.