On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 18:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > The 'dot' at the start of the filename is how *nix systems > traditionally mark a "hidden file". Any filename beginning with a dot > will be treated as "hidden", and any filename not beginning with one > won't. > > To see them in a terminal, the command is > > $ ls -a I prefer $ ls -A "-A, --almost-all do not list implied . and .."