If you ever have to view the hidden files on your mac, you will know that it can be quite cumbersome to remember and then use the terminal commands for showing these files. I do this all the time, so I thought I would make a shell script that could do it for me. The nice thing about shell scripts is that they can be nicely integrated with alfred. The way I have it setup, lets me simply type “show hidden files” in alfred when ever I need to see them, and if I do it again they will magically be hidden again.

You can get the same setup by downloading my script, and make a shortcut to it in the alfred preferencepane.as shown below.