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Easy Show/Hide of Hidden Files in OS X

Add this to your .bash_profile:

alias showFiles='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE;killall Finder'
alias hideFiles='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO;killall Finder'

Then from a terminal just run showFiles to show hidden files and hideFiles to hide them again.

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