{"id":50,"date":"2007-12-14T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/dot-files\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:35:01","slug":"dot-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/dot-files\/","title":{"rendered":"dot Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah those mysterious dot files (.<em>filename<\/em>) What are those?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/explain-linux-unix-dot-files\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cybercity<\/a> explains that these are nothing but a configuration files that are found in one&#8217;s home directory. True.<\/p>\n<p>It is use to configure settings for unix programs. True.<\/p>\n<p>And the favorite of all explanation of dot files are it is a hidden files, intended not to be displayed or listed when browsing a particular directory.<\/p>\n<p>You can list dot files using ls command:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<em>ls -a<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the switch &#8216;-a&#8217; tells the shell to list all files in the current directory whether it is an ordinary files, a directory, a link or a hidden (dot) files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah those mysterious dot files (.filename) What are those? Cybercity explains that these are nothing but a configuration files that are found in one&#8217;s home directory. True. It is use to configure settings for unix &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}