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Originally Posted by jusmee
If I was writing a GUI to display device contents, I wouldn't use a command line utility like "ls" at all. There will be a proper call to a library that will return a file/directory list, then you can choose what to display programmatically from that list.
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Yes, but my basic point was that the "dot file is hidden" convention is widely used. As you say, it isn't rocket science to skip dot files, and in fact it is more common to do so than not (except under Windows).