Linux

What are hidden files/directories? How to list them?

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Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

These are files directly not displayed after performing a standard ls direct listing. An example of these files are .bashrc which are used to execute some scripts. Some also store configuration about services on your host like .KUBECONFIG. The command used to list them is, ls -a