From: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Down with files that begin with a dot
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.601
Posted: Tue Oct 12 14:05:39 1982
Received: Tue Oct 12 14:43:10 1982
References: utcsrgv.598

C'mon you guys. What's wrong with "ls -a"?
I see nothing wrong with files beginning with a dot. You can
get to them if you want, but generally you DON'T want. If I'm in
my home directory and do an ls, I don't want to see all kinds of
administrative files. But I may want to read one of them now and
then. The only things that ignore files beginning with a dot are
ls and glob, and those can be circumvented (by "ls -a" and ".*").
Dave Sherman
U of Toronto