As developers, we often need to create, read, and edit dotfiles. Any file or folder whose name starts with a period (dot) is automatically hidden from the Finder, and when listing a folder’s contents with ls in the Terminal.

As developers, we often need to create, read, and edit dotfiles. Any file or folder whose name starts with a period (dot) is automatically hidden from the Finder, and when listing a folder’s contents with ls in the Terminal.