showing hidden files by default

[Daniel Bye]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 06:20:30PM +0100, Robert Davison 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 the normal behaviour.  To disable it, say `ls -I' (without the
quotes).

man ls for more tasty morsels!

Dan

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