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From: paulb@ttidca.TTI.COM (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX "dot" files
Keywords: .cshrc .login
Message-ID: <7191@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 17:12:19 GMT
References: <554@ncelvax.UUCP> <1464@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: paulb@ncc1701.tti.com (Paul Blumstein)
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In article <1464@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
+
+  ls will display these files with the -a option, which is set by
+default for root on many systems.

Some systems allow a -A option, which is not always documented.
The -A option is like -a, except that it doesn't list . & ..
(which is not interesting).  You may want to alias ls to "ls -A"
if you would like to see the dot files normally (like root does).
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