From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 8:19:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AABA37B998 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 08:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-184-245.charm.net [162.33.184.245]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23812; Sat, 27 May 2000 11:19:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <392FD96C.EFEE0170@charm.net> Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:19:24 +0100 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Kwan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hidden File References: <005b01bfc7e7$44542040$8c1e40ca@alexkwan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi > > How to view and edit a hidden file and > make a normal file to be a hidden file? > > Thanks If you mean a file such as, .profile then the following may be a good method. 1) emacs .profile 2) The concept of hidden file in UNIX is not the same as MS products. Do the following, man ls I would try to be more lucid when asking a question like this. -d -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuff n. -trappings, essence, junk, things, gear | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | My site full of Stuff : http://www.charm.net/~dutch | | #2 e-mail [servers do crash] : 2quasimoto@netscape.net | | | |$Id: overly-complex-sig.txt,v 1.0 2000/05/22 18:09:00 dutch Exp $ | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message