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Ruby Newbie: seeing invisible files in Macintosh
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How do you reveal all those dot files like .bashrc and .profile?

To see the invisible files, i.e. .bashrc and .bash_aliases etc.

Open Terminal For OS X 10.9 Mavericks or 10.10 Yosemite, run this command (lower-case finder):

    $ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

For OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7, or 10.6, run this command (upper-case Finder):

    $ defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true

Notice the case changes Then run this command to restart the finder:

    $ killall Finder

Then exit Terminal, you will see the .files

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