Showing hidden folders in Finder

It might be easier just, in Terminal, to do:

mv ~/.m2 ~/m2
ln -s ~/m2 ~/.m2

Then, you could see the m2 dir, but to the program it would be working with .m2 .
That would also avoid the problem of having all sorts of other hidden files shown.

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P.S. Sorry, I just looked at Francine's reply and noticed that it is basically the same thing, except in reverse. Francine has you make an alias of the hidden folder and use that for yourself, I have you change the filename of the actual folder so it isn't hidden, then make a symlink (unix equivalent of alias) so the program can see it. Whichever you like.

The installer software makes that folder invisible for a reason. Are you sure you don't want to leave it that way? Note that to make it visible you must rename it from '.m2' to 'm2'. In doing so the Maven software will no longer be able to locate it because you've changed the name. Now, if this can be handled in some preference file for Maven, then it's not a problem. Otherwise you would be better off leaving the name as-is. As a Linux user I would think you'd know about this.

You can have all hidden items appear or none. You'll go nuts if they're all visible all the time. One thing you can do is open the folder, using the Go to Folder option, then hold down the Command and Option keys and click, hold, and drag the proxy icon at the top of the open window to your Desktop. The alias will also be invisible, but in Terminal just rename it and drop the leading dot.

NoobiX:~ francine$ mv /Users/francine/Desktop/.pngs /Users/francine/Desktop/pngs

The alias will now be visible, and still pointing to the original. You can now open the invisible folder any time by double clicking the alias. Oh, you can also move it to wherever you want it, and it will still point to the original.
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You can use a utility such as Onyx to set various hidden parameters, such as the FInder showing those dot files.