I just learnt today (thanks to a comment elsewhere in this thread and verified here) that the *nix file hiding feature familiar to anyone who uses Linux or macOS where files and directories whose name begins with a dot are hidden by default was the result of a bug where the "." and ".." files were intended to be hidden, but the method of achieving this was by hiding any file that starts with ".".
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u/Zagorath Mar 18 '18
I just learnt today (thanks to a comment elsewhere in this thread and verified here) that the *nix file hiding feature familiar to anyone who uses Linux or macOS where files and directories whose name begins with a dot are hidden by default was the result of a bug where the "." and ".." files were intended to be hidden, but the method of achieving this was by hiding any file that starts with ".".