On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 17:20 -0700, jdow wrote: > Hidden files or directories are hidden. What part of that are some people > missing. You have to tell the system to expose those "hidden" items for many > operations such as listing files, which this abuse of "du" is showing.
The system has no concept of a hidden file. There is simply a convention that 'ls' and some other commands ignore names beginning with '.' by default, and this is incorporated into the Shell's interpretation of '*'. That's all. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
