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`ls` is probably the most important place they're hidden, but the Mac OS Finder honors this convention too.
by tesseract 6y ago
`ls` is probably the most important place they're hidden, but the Mac OS Finder honors this convention too.
- dylan604 6y agoi much prefer them to be hidden by default. i know they are there, but rarely do i need them. especially in something like `for i in $(ls -1)` type of commands. if i need them `alias 'lla = ls -la'`, 'alias 'la = ls -a'` are faves to now see what i'm looking for quickly
- Symbiote 6y agofor i in *
- milkytron 6y agoI think Windows has them hidden by default as well (in explorer).
- marcosdumay 6y agoSince Win7. But Windows has a lot of problems with hidden files, so a lot of people just set it to not hide any.
- gowld 6y agoThey are hidden by default to protect newbies. GitHub users can unhide them.
- smt88 6y agoWow, I've used `ls -la` for so long that I didn't even know the default `ls` behavior. Thanks for reminding me.