UNIX "dot" files

Paul Blumstein paulb at ttidca.TTI.COM
Fri Oct 27 03:12:19 AEST 1989


In article <1464 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
+
+  ls will display these files with the -a option, which is set by
+default for root on many systems.

Some systems allow a -A option, which is not always documented.
The -A option is like -a, except that it doesn't list . & ..
(which is not interesting).  You may want to alias ls to "ls -A"
if you would like to see the dot files normally (like root does).
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