On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: > Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with > a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape , > but when I look for it, all I see is: /home/shel .. Does that make any > sense??... >
As far as I know there are no directories starting with a "." In order to find a dot file use this command -- ls -a <directory> Just -- ls -a in the current directory. Take a look at the "ls" man page for other useful stuff. you could also use -- locate .netscape hth, kent
