Newbie question

[Demetri Mouratis]

OK.  Sorry to point this out but: Why does everyone assume that explaining
a *NIX file system issue in terms of M$ Windows terminology would clarify
hidden files at all?

I would think that in the interest of explaining things, M$ references
would be towards the end of the list of cogent examples.

Back to my cli...

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Ewan Leith wrote:

> The "." at the front of a file in Unix is the equivalent of marking it as
> hidden in windows.
>
> An ls -a will still show any . files, but a normal ls wont.
>
> Ewan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raj Mudhar [mailto:Raj.Mudhar at nottingham.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 30 April 2003 14:47
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Newbie question
> >
> >
> > hi
> >
> > I created a .htaccess file in usr/local/nagios/sbin
> > directory.. whats the significance of the .  whats it for anyway?
> >
> >
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