hidden directory

hidden directory

Posted Apr 8, 2004 16:25 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: /usr/local/ ? by rfunk
Parent article: The User-Accessible Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

And why stick this stuff in hidden directories?

I find that people use hidden files/directories as a means creating another level of directory; i.e. all the dot files in a directory are effectively in a subdirectory so they don't clutter a listing of the main directory.

Frankly, I'd much prefer just to use the one directory hierarchy. It costs one subdirectory entry in a main directory to hide all the files that would otherwise be dot files.

I have taken the matter into my own hands somewhat: My alias for 'ls' includes the --almost-all option. That means I see the dot files even though the package author didn't want me to. I find I am much happier actually seeing all my files.

It does, unfortunately, make my home directory listing uncomfortably large, making me wish we had something like the .config/ standard mentioned in the article.

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