On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably a better question is why 'dotfiles' are ever hidden by ls. > This was an historical mistake that never got corrected.
Rob Pike answered this just a month ago: hidden dotfiles were produced from a coding error. Only '.' and '..' were supposed to be hidden. https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
