From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 17:36:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01D037B590 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 17:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-142.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.142] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA02062; Sun, 28 May 2000 10:38:10 +1000 From: Danny To: Dutch Collins , Alex Kwan Subject: Re: Hidden File Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:42:53 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <392FD96C.EFEE0170@charm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00052910433007.00361@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -To view hidden files you need to use "ls -al" instead of "ls -l" -Read the man pages for more details On Sun, 28 May 2000, Dutch Collins wrote: > Alex Kwan wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > How to view and edit a hidden file and > > make a normal file to be a hidden file? > > > > Thanks > > If you mean a file such as, .profile then the following may be a good > method. > > 1) emacs .profile > > 2) The concept of hidden file in UNIX is not the same as MS products. > Do the following, man ls > > I would try to be more lucid when asking a question like this. > > -d > -- > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Stuff n. -trappings, essence, junk, things, gear | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | My site full of Stuff : http://www.charm.net/~dutch | > | #2 e-mail [servers do crash] : 2quasimoto@netscape.net | > | | > |$Id: overly-complex-sig.txt,v 1.0 2000/05/22 18:09:00 dutch Exp $ | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message