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Mac Show/Hide Files

Add these two lines to your .bashrc or .zshrc file.

alias show-files="defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app"

alias hide-files="defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app"
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