Newbie question

[Ewan Leith]

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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