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Hidden files

In the last few directory listings you will have noticed a hidden file, that was revealed when using the -a flag on ls, if you looked carefully. In Unix all files starting with a '.' as the first character of their filename are hidden.



Mark O. Stitson
Wed Sep 25 10:45:32 BST 1996