If you are not familiar with the find command, check out our Getting Started article.

Let's say /tmp/example contains a hidden directory, like this.

/tmp/example/.hidden_directory

The following command can be used to return file and directory, including hidden directories.

find /tmp/example -name "*"

The following should be displayed. In this scenario, both the parent directory (/tmp/example) and everything within the parent directory will be returned.

/tmp/example
/tmp/example/.hidden_directory

The following command can be used to only display hidden directories.

find /tmp/example -name ".*"

The following should be displayed. In this scenario, files and directories beginning with a period followed by anything will be returned.

/tmp/example/.hidden_directory