hidden file attribute

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Sat May 14 00:11:50 PDT 2005


On Fri, 13 May 2005 20:37:37 -0700, Joshua Lewis
<joshua.lewis at prideindesign.com> wrote:

> Is there a hidden file attribute in FreeBSD as there is in Windows?

No, there isn't.

> If so how do I unset it?
> 
> Or allow certain users to be able to view the files without unsetting 
> it.

If by "hidden" files you mean "dot" files (files whose names begin with
a "." and do not appear in the listing produced by a simple "ls"
command), then simply use the "-a" or "-A" switch to view them with
"ls".

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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