Tony Campisi wrote:
>
> I did an "updatedb" as you suggested.
> [root@blah /var/qmail/alias]# locate hall
> /home/thall/Maildir
> /home/thall/Maildir/tmp
> /home/thall/Maildir/new
> /home/thall/Maildir/cur
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-terry:hall
>
> [root@blah /var/qmail/alias]# ls -l
> total 0
>
> Just because the file starts with a "." shouldn't be a reason for me not to
> see it when I do a "dir". Whatcha think?
It is the reason. That's how ls is implemented. If you want to see files that
start with . you should use ls -a.
>From "man ls"
--snip--
-a, --all
do not hide entries starting with .
--snip--
Peter
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