Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:33:50 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Shadi Fazelian <sh_fazelian@yahoo.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please hellllllllllllp me! Message-ID: <20000522153349.Z28097@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000522155431.21317A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:56:11PM -0500 References: <20000522025901.T28097@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000522155431.21317A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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* David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> [000522 14:30] wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Shadi Fazelian <sh_fazelian@yahoo.com> [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. If the netapp doesn't honor readdir requests properly then it's breaking unix semantics. Netapp is broken, there's no reason to intentionally hide this directory from readdir. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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