Now filedot is a regular file. Nothing special – except its name contains the substring "dot". This is useful for in scripts.
Remove the hyphen. Standard Linux flags are single letters (like -l , -a , -h ). ls filedot
So ls filedot might be a of "list dot files". Now filedot is a regular file
In software development and systems architecture, a .dot file is a plain-text graph description language file used by a program called . Engineers frequently look for ways to list, find, and manipulate these files. ls filedot
$ ls -A .bashrc .cache .config Documents Downloads file.txt