showing hidden files by default

Atom Powers atom.powers at gmail.com
Thu May 11 10:48:03 PDT 2006


On 5/11/06, Robert Davison <rob_27_preston at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been running 6.1 RC-1 for a couple of weeks with
> no problem. I've just installed a fresh copy of 6.1
> roduction and when logging in as root am able to see
> (.)hidden files when running the 'ls' command. Is this
> normal, or is there something that I need to change to
> ensuer that the (.) files stay hidden unless i use ls -a
>

This is normal for root.
But check the release notes, the "-I" switch was added to ls to
suppress the default "-A" for root.

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