Chris Turner:
On 09/13/12 19:41, Matthew Dillon wrote:I can't think of a good reason why f_listdot is set for root automatically,Agreed - Except that if you're root, you don't want to be 'user friendlyified' and miss files that should be found/removed/inspected/etc, possibly.
it is not about human-user anyway but root-executed scripts. taking in account that human-user used to have .dotted files hidden, he wants his scripts to see the same (it makes programming more natural)
who says these dot files should be hidden anyway?
shell *-expantion said that.
