[TUHS] the origin of dotfiles

[ori@helicontech.co.il (Ori Idan)]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 02:13:00PM +0900, Kuroishi Mitsuo wrote:
> >
> > Hi. Just FYI.
> >
> > It's an interesting article about the origin of dotfiles.
> >
> > https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
> >
>
> With all due respect to Rob Pike, I really do not find it all that
> interesting. .files being no different than any other file other than
> not being displayed in a listing ? it seriously makes utterly no
> difference other than the human PoV. Just because "We did it in Plan 9"
> does mean squat other than "We did it differently".
>
> $ ls -A |grep ^\\. |wc -l
>      108
>
>      All of which I know how they got there and why they are there.
>
>
> You have to keep in mind that the old UNIX systems did not have all the
> crap that has evolved today for "Desktop" use and programmers in any
> given situation will leverage all aspects available in any environment
> to achieve a goal, just as Plan 9 does.
>
>
> Just out of curiosity, how does plan 9 handles it?
Are there hidden files there? I am sure there are but how are they handled?

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Ori Idan
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