Show and Restore Hidden Files From The TM Interface.

Hello All,
Just wondering if anyone knew how to restore hidden files and folders from the Time Machine interface. For example how to navigate to ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile or get to /etc and restore with TM. Do not think there is a command line interface for TM but that would be very cool. If anyone knows and solutions to this issue, thank you in advance for your help.
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Thank you V.K. the menue -> go worked for me and no I do not see the private etc tmp or other in / in finder, always navigated there in terminal.
The reason I was asking was that I corrupted my sudoers files by editing with TextMate and not vi but fixed now, thanks to your help. Restored, edited with visudo and works great. As far as editing files in /etc there are many that sometimes need to be edited by hand but sure that there are other ways of doing so, just not aware, such as ssh_config, sshd_config, hosts, httpd, apache2, bashrc, and others. All pervious edits have been fine using TextMate -w but seems that sudoers is a different animal.
Thanks V.K. sudo command restored. Hope this helps others.

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