Re: Display names beginning with period

In article <fs14gt$mg8$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Priam <priam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JF Mezei a écrit :
dvschorre wrote:
How can I display my home folder so that I can see the hidden names
that begin with a period?

go into terminal (or xterm):

cd ~
ls -a


For a "finder" solution, you need an app like: TinkerTool which gives
you access to many "preferences" not included with OS-X such as telling
Finder to display hidden files.

Still won't show you the unix directories like /etc but will show the
files starting with .

Are you kidding? All the time I've used Linux I could see hidden files
unless chmoded to not be seen by users, and all directories too, except
/root. This Jobby thingy is moronic.

But this is not Linux, nor is it Unix. It is Mac OS X. It
happens to have a Mach micro-kernel and FreeBSD Unix APIs, but
Apple is not really trying to sell you a Unix system.

Can't remember where I found this one, but it was one of the first
things I downloaded when I switched from 8.6 to 10.4

Debian offers more than 20 downloadable CDs, but this you can't
download: it's all "included".

Feel free to install Debian, or any other Linux distribution. We
really do not mine. OK, there is a guy over there in the corner
that minds, but we don't pay any attention to him :-)

Really, JF, why didn't you get yourself a real PC instead of an Apple
with Jobby's billion dollar cut bitten off? Would you be part of the WOW
trend too?

I'm not JF, but speaking for myself, I use Mac OS X because I get
to spend more time doing useful work and less time maintaining the
system.

And I would like to point out that in my Day job, I've been
writing kernel code for several different Unix and Linux systems.
So I do know the difference between Mac OS X and Linux.

Most of the Mac users you will see in this news group will not try
to force you to switch to Mac OS X, but they will defend their
right to choose how they want to spend their time and money. How
much Steve Jobs gets paid does not really enter into the picture,
as long as we think there is value to use in the products we buy.

Bob Harris
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