So i have searched this and come up with a bunch of posts full of nothing but people using every buzz word they know to sound smart. I want to know why some directories in linux are named with a "." in front. I have read several posts about people going on and on and on about the linux file strucutre which is not helpful at all. I understand that . and .. are the parent child relationship ok great. Then people drown on about something called a directory entry? I have no idea what that means making the answers useless. All i want to know is why the .ssh folder has a . in front of it.
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Basically, putting a "." at the start of a directory or file name makes that a hidden directory or file.
A hidden directory is normally chosen for things like .ssh since it only contains configuration files for your ssh client and is not something you would normally want to see.
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