Unhiding Hidden Files from cli
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Nov 12 15:35:31 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:17, Bolívar Mena wrote:
> But if you are trying to be able to browse them in a file manager,
> like konqueror, you can change their name with 'mv .filename filename'
> so they won't be "hidden" anymore. Watch out, this is not a command
> to unhide a file, its to move/rename files, taking out the dot from
> files withtout caution may cause problems since many programs
> writes/reads its configuration in dotted files.
>
That is a horrible idea!
Not sure about knoqueror but in nautilus there is a preferences option
that you can select to show files that start with . as well as backup
files ending with ~. Go to edit---> preferences and select the icon &
list views category. There is a panel for show options that you can
select to show hidden and backup files.
Renaming . (dot) files to look at them in a file manager is a good way
to really bork your system.
Don't do that.
--
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
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