http://www.freemacunix.com/invisible-files/ Terminal for the Rest of Us Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:09:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.freemacunix.com/invisible-files/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Glenn Kerbein Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:45:24 +0000 http://www.freemacunix.com/invisible-files/#comment-320 You can also use the <code>ls -A</code> to list all files, including those with a "." beginning. The -A flag does not list "." or "..", which are relative directories, the current directory and one directory up, respectively. Most httpds, including apache, do respect "dot files", except <code>.htaccess</code> files, since they contain configuration directives that should not be seen by anyone/thing other than the web server. You can also use the ls -A to list all files, including those with a “.” beginning. The -A flag does not list “.” or “..”, which are relative directories, the current directory and one directory up, respectively.
Most httpds, including apache, do respect “dot files”, except .htaccess files, since they contain configuration directives that should not be seen by anyone/thing other than the web server.

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