Well, it's a Unix convention dating back at least 20 years (and I
presume all the way back to 1972 or thereabouts) that a file starting
with a dot is a hidden file.
That is, in order to reduce clutter, you can name a file starting with
a dot and then it won't be shown with an ordinary ls command, though
you can choose to view all files if you want.
File managers to conform to this convention as well, but generally have
an option to show hidden files if desired.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Hey all..
|
| I discovered something the other night playing with Sawmill that I
| cannot find an answer to..
|
| I was installing themes and it said copy to /home/user/.sawmill or
| something..
|
| ANyway, I discovered this /.sawmill dir along with a whole lotta other
| /.xxxxxx dirs using
| ls -la..
|
| If I do ls, I do not see these.. ( /.xxxxx )
| Also KDE and gnome's file manager do not show any of these
| /.xxxxxx dir in the user dir..
|
| What IS this, and why are they sort of hidden??
|
| Is this clear??
|
| I'm confused.. :(
|
| Alan
|
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