After deciding my old MacBook had become overburdened, I chose not to reinstall Mountain Lion and give Snow Leopard another shot. Nice not to have to deal with all the overheating and fan noises now. While setting up Transmit to work with public key authentication I needed access to ~/.ssh. I’m still a bit new to Macs and consulted Professor Google for a quick solution.
At any rate, I imagine this works with ML also but here’s the deal…
Shift-CMD-Period.