[plug] hidden files

[James Devenish]

In message <OF6A1FA948.31B99B31-ON48256D88.000E3998 at au1.ibm.com>
on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:37:19AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> all "." files remain hidden from a bog-standard "ls", they could be
> "hidden".

Hmm,...hadn't thought of that (I always show those files). I suppose we
suffer from a good definition of what a "hidden file" might be on a
POSIX-like system.

In message <3F42E001.6070804 at leftclick.com.au>
on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:42:09AM +0800, Ben New wrote:
> >find / -name .* -print
[...]
> You might have to play around with the -regex option or something.

It should be sufficient to quote the ".*" (i.e. `find / -name ".*" -ls`).
If necessary, add "-type f" :)

In message <20E0F651F8B82F45ABCBACC58A2D995B03318F at mexper1>
on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:39:17AM +0800, John Usher (Maptek) wrote:
> This is probably not an answer to the question, but one place that you
> can effectively get hidden files is under mount points.

Good point!