From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 22 13:57: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540C837BDF2 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 13:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA79344; Mon, 22 May 2000 15:56:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:56:11 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Shadi Fazelian , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please hellllllllllllp me! In-Reply-To: <20000522025901.T28097@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Shadi Fazelian [000522 02:31] wrote: > > Hello. > > please guide me: > > 1- how I can see a hidden file (not dot file) and how > > I can hidden a file ? > > my mean: I want make a file that ls -al can't see it. > > impossible(*) afaik. dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 536$ ls -al | grep .snapshot dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 537$ ls -al .snapshot total 60 drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 May 22 15:01 . drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 15:51 .. drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 14:58 hourly.0 drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:52 hourly.1 drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:00 hourly.2 drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 10:52 hourly.3 drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.0 drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.1 dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 538$ doesn't count then? This is a directory NFS-mounted from a NetApp. The .snapshot directory is a lifesaver, and support cost cutter. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message