From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 18:06:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14904 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.globalserve.net (smtp1.globalserve.net [209.90.144.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14889 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffr@globalserve.net) Received: from globalserve.net (dialin2295.toronto.globalserve.net [209.90.141.199]) by smtp1.globalserve.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA03448 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:05:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoffr@globalserve.net) Message-ID: <362BDE75.33BBA55A@globalserve.net> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:51:01 -0400 From: Geoffrey Robinson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can I Hide Files? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it possible to set a file or directory as hidden so that it won't show up on ls or ls -alo but can be read written or executed if you know the name? thanks. -- Geoffrey Robinson geoffr@globalserve.net Oakville, Ontario, Canada. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message