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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by carlhjerpe on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:43PM (#32429293)
What a genius idea, I'm gonna write a shell function to "permanently unhide" everything in a directory, I love *nix
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by anamexis on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:48PM (#32429358)
That "function" for me is just `alias ls='ls -a'`
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by carlhjerpe on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:54PM (#32429437)
Not the same, though there are more tools than ls that use directories.
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