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: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:43:58 -0800 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3DEC287E.7020402@Salira.com> References: <265000-22002121221502035@M2W057.mail2web.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021202171356.028d5960@pop3.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038886993 19013 206.184.204.2 (3 Dec 2002 03:43:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 03:43:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh Randall R Schulz wrote: > Andrew, > > Cygwin uses stock "ls" source code. Cygwin's "ps" is entirely it's > own--it's all "distinctly Cygwin." Makes sense. Still I would like ls to do it (in my case by default). You see I'm one of those, I guess, few Windows users who actually uses hidden files and likes to have them hidden in the Explorer and, correspondingly in ls. So I just live with this "defect". Hacking up a wrapper around ls to use attribe would be a little work, if one wanted to insure other ls semantics including color and the like (IOW do it right). Maybe someday I'll do this... -- 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/