Thanks for this. UNIX is not my forte and I didn't realize ls had an -a option. My bad!

Unfortunately for me, when I installed Laravel 5.1 with Composer, the following files are missing:

.env    .env.example     .gitattributes    .gitignore

I also checked the folder using this command:

ls -a

Any idea what happened?

Debiprasad said:

Unfortunately for me, when I installed Laravel 5.1 with Composer, the following files are missing:

.env .env.example .gitattributes .gitignore ...

Any idea what happened?

I understand how those files went missing. I moved the files from one folder to another using a command which skipped all those hidden files.