I would not promulgate this ancient Unix hack. It was excluded on plan 9 for this exact reason as the Unix creators knew it was a mistake and corrected it. Fur

I would not promulgate this ancient Unix hack. It was excluded on plan 9 for this exact reason as the Unix creators knew it was a mistake and corrected it. Furthermore, the idea of hidden files seems silly to me as they are mostly used to hide dot files that should be in a directory and not carelessly tossed into the root of a users home directory. It saddens me we pollute newer software with ancient hacks simply because no one wants to fix the root of the problem.