On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:33:54AM +0200, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > Hi, using 4.2. > > Just for curiosity... > > Can I make "ls" to NOT show > the hidden files (.xinitrc , .vimrc, etc) when > using as Root?? > > Thanks 4 all.
Why is this a problem ? When you're root, you really want to see all the files. If you see this as inconvenient, this is because you're misusing the root account, most likely doing your normal work as root. THIS IS A HUGE MISTAKE. Create a user account, use it. You have nice tools like sudo to become root when you need it. If you do everything as root, sooner or later, you will fuck up. We have this old saying. There are two kinds of sysadmins: those who have already done one big mistake (and learnt from it) and those who haven't YET.
