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I suppose that could be, I don't know either. I think it's more likely from the early days where users were interacting over slow teletypes or terminals, and ha

I suppose that could be, I don't know either. I think it's more likely from the early days where users were interacting over slow teletypes or terminals, and having a convention that hid rarely-interesting files by default was more efficient.

loeg 9y ago
It was a bug in ls. The intent was to hide only "." and "..". https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/88875/why-are-filenames-that-start-with-a-dot-hidden-can-i-hide-files-without-using-a https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/88875/why-are-filen...