Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:19:57 +0100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <10egfns$mkr3$1@dont-email.me> <10eodir$2rsga$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net KL7ZwqjsGk6lElbKUL4+WgK6SjOmCdVWNTpb9pxfHNFhHZ5EAH X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:cE40d/BtlrQcoEerURqTrYgPfvA= sha256:Irf+BFQ5BHmqT5NXNVATCy3bAHBOHvYKg5T3xmebRcE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10eodir$2rsga$5@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77291 On 2025-11-08 22:43, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:24:42 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > >> I feel like I almost never use -a or -A. I don't need to list the >> "hidden" dirs, I know what and where they are. > > How many do you have in your home directory? > > ldo@theon:~> ls ~/ | wc -l > 34 > ldo@theon:~> ls -A ~/ | wc -l > 304 > ldo@theon:~> ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l > 270 cer@Telcontar:~> ls ~/ | wc -l 779 cer@Telcontar:~> ls -A ~/ | wc -l 1325 cer@Telcontar:~> ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l 546 cer@Telcontar:~> -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;