Answer / amedela chandra sekhar

ls -a|grep "^\."

Answer / sarvan

Hidden files will start a period (.) in their names. To
list them use -a option of ls command.

like, ls -ltra

Answer / guest

ls -a

Answer / chelios

Minimalistic form:
ls -a | grep '\.'

Really people, 'only hidden' means 'only hidden', not 'also hidden'...

Answer / ashutosh gupta

ls -a|grep "^\."

Answer / qwertz

Even more minimalistic:
ls -lad .*

Answer / qwertz

And the most minimalistic:
echo .*


:-)

Answer / kirus

ls-a

Answer / ram

In unix, hidden files are started with .
But whenever checking for hidden files, we should consider
the two extra ordinary files in evry directory.
'.' and '..'
. denotes to the present working direcory
.. denotes to the previous/parent directory
For filtering only for hidden files use
ls -la .??*

But this will consider the hidden files have length > 2.
So if a hidden file with one letter wont appear.

Answer / unix expert

He wrote correct answer(2).who stupid given "NO".
Before giving "no' u should check correct or not .

simply don't tell 'NO'

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