Unhiding Hidden Files from cli

[Ben Steeves]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:03:11 +0100, Lars <terraformers at gmx.net> wrote:
> Mark Sargent wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > what is the command in the cli/terminal to undide hidden files so as to
> > view when doing ls command..? Cheers.

They're not hidden in the sense that the OS is purposely preventing
you from seeing them so that you won't harm them/the OS/yourself. 
That's not the UNIX way.  It is merely convention that files that
start with a 'dot' (.) are not displayed by most directory commands
(such as ls) or operated on by bash globs (for example, "cat *").

The hiding is not intrinsic to the operating system or the file
system.  You can tell any application (such as ls) to over ride its
normal behavior of not operating on the "dot-files".  In the explicit
case of 'ls', that switch is '-a'.

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