On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:50:53 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Daniel Gibson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
The "." at the start is Unix convention to say "this is a hidden
file/folder", this means "ls" (the unix equivalent to "dir") doesn't
list
them (ls -a does, though) and most file browsers only list them when you
select something like "show hidden files" or "show dot files".
I know. I was just wondering how the semantics of "name" and "extension"
applied to them.
I would say it is not an extension, it is the filename. On unix only
though. And as to my opinion on files with multiple dots, the last one is
the extension, the others are part of the filename.
FYI In addition to ls not listing them, the shell doesn't consider them in
* expansion. so echo * does not show hidden files.
-Steve
