Renamed file beginning with dot (.)

Hello,
I created and accidentaly renamed a file "htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess".
I learned that files beginning with . are reserved for the system are thus not visible on the desktop… the file dissapeared
How can I do to view it ? I just want to rename or delete it.
Regards,
Nicolas

And just to add, you do have to be in the current directory that the hidden file is in to use those commands (Well not really, you can use an absolute path beginning from the root of the drive, but too prone to nasty mistakes.
Say the file is is your user folder in Documents.
When you first go into the shell, You will already be placed in YOUR users directory.
so if you do this command (Print working directory)
pwd
you will be returned with
/Users/username (Username is a placeholder for your users SHORTNAME)
So then you would just use the CD (Change directory) command
cd Documents
and if you do a pwd again you will get
/Users/username/Documents

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