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[Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:02:15PM +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:
> I'm online with Arachne at the moment so I can't experiment, but when I
> was last in BL, I tried to do that but "find -name xinitrc" returns
> nothing.
> 
> All the stuff i have dug up says to put it in that file, but it doesn't
> seem to exist. Do I need to create a new file with that name?

Files/directories starting with dot are kind-of-hidden in UNIX. Normal
ls won't show them. Try

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ls -A
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in order to see files/directories starting with ".", along with any
other files.

If you want to see these files in long format (like in DOS):

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ls -Al
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And if you want to see these files whenever you issue "ls":

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alias ls="ls -A"
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To make this alias (shorthand/shortcut) permanent, add that alias line
to /etc/profile (which is like autoexec.bat in DOS, meaning that it is
sourced every time a shell starts up).

Karolis