Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Daniel Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: ls incorrectly shows system hidden files Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:14:46 -0700 Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020731134001.01f96868@pop3.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: qdsl-45.dsl.infomagic.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028150092 6518 63.229.104.45 (31 Jul 2002 21:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:14:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 My request is that if someone would change it, then they would put in a command line switch to the ls command. ls is a UNIX command and should not be messed with. This way if someone wants that nature to always be true, makes a lot of sense to me, then they could simply write an alias that always adds the command line switch into the ls command. An alias is a possibility isn't it? -- Daniel Adams - danpadams@infomagic.net http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dpa3 1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)- Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. "Randall R Schulz" wrote in message news:5.1.0.14.2.20020731134001.01f96868@pop3.cris.com... > Wendell, > > At 13:25 2002-07-31, Wendell Pinegar wrote: > >I just noticed that the "ls" command in cygwin shows Windows system hidden > >files. Hidden files shouldn't be listed by the ls command! > > This at best is a matter of opinion. > > My prediction is that those whose opinion counts most (that is, the people > who do the work of maintaining the Cygwin code) do not share this opinion. > > > >Can this be changed? > > It can. You're welcome to use the available source code to produce a > version of "ls" that accommodates your preferences. You could even, if you > so chose, submit your changes with a request that they be incorporated into > the Cygwin source code base itself. > > > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > >Please reply directly as I do not monitor the cygwin discussion group on a > >routine basis. Thank you! > > > >Sincerely, > > > >Wendell W. Pinegar > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/