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Originally Posted by PeterT
And of course a directory entry is just another type of file, so .... it's just being consistent in treating all entries that start with a period as hidden.
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I remember using an older version of Unix where you could read a directory like a file, which was kinda fun. (I just tried under OS X, Linux, and NetBSD. Alas, it doesn't work on those systems.)
It also sort-of explains why you can do something like this:
Code:
$ mkdir -p 1/2/3
$ chmod 100 1
$ ls 1
ls: 1: Permission denied
$ cd 1
$ ls
ls: .: Permission denied
$ ls 2
3
Weird stuff.