The problem with such thoroughly robust StackOverflow answers as this; when I stumble across one as I occasionally do, so taken aback am I by it's succinct completeness that it becomes irreversably embedded into my limited brain space.<p>I am afraid that one day I will come across an answer so comprehensive I will forget how to ride a bicycle.
Per Rob Pike, the very existence of "hidden"
named dotfiles was a bug that snowballed: <a href="https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp</a>
Why can no one read a man page anymore? They even have them on the internet these days.<p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/ls.1.html" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...</a><p>-A List all entries except for . and ... Always set for the super-user.
Also here: <a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/211689/sudo-ls-not-showing-hidden-files-on-linux/211701#211701" rel="nofollow">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/211689/sudo-ls-not-s...</a>