I’m not sure why this command doesn’t get more play, so I’m gonna put it out there so google picks it up. At least in Snow Leopard, simply hitting cmd-shift-. will show hidden files for that browse session.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
At least for me, that’s a much more usable solution than permanently showing all hidden files, which is what you get by executing the more commonly documented solution:
See also:
[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/142884/2009/09/106seehidden.html
[2] http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/04/show-hidden-files.html
Who uses Finder? If you’re truly the interwebz hacker you claim to be you’re strictly command prompt ;) ls -al bitches!
Yeah yeah yeah. Opening files in eclipse from the command prompt sucks though…