Hello Ray, Others can provide more detailed information about the rational of the "dot" file, but regarding your questions:
r...@electronicstheory.com wrote, On 04/11/2013 02:17 PM: > Once in a blue moon, a person would like to view the subdirectories of the > directory you are in, without seeing all the various files. "find -type d" will list all directories (but will do so recursively). "find -maxdepth 1 -type d" will list only directories immediately under your current directory. Since it's "once in a blue moon" (as you've said), I guess there's no "short form" for that. If you need the extended information that "ls" provides: find -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ld <...> > > Interestingly, the MAN page seems to indicate that this is the way to go, > however, regardless of what directory you are in, if you type > > ls -d > One use-case for "-d" is to show the information about the directory, instead of the *content* of the directory. Compare: ls -l /etc vs.: ls -ld /etc HTH, -gordon
