Uno Engborg wrote: > In Gnome, MacOS-X, and in Kubuntu KDE, you can make a file hidden from > the desktop environment by listing it in a file called .hidden. > The .hidden file resides in the same directory as the files to be > hidden, and lists the files to be hidden as one file/line. > > Files hidden by being listed in .hidden should behave like any other > dot file. E.g. they should be listed with ls -a > > It would be nice if the bash shell used the same extended mechanism for > creating hidden files. Honoring the .hidden mechanism would allow for a > more consitent user experiece for peoople switching back and forth > between GUI and CLI environments.
Perhaps you could explain how this new paradigm idea affects the bash shell? I fail to see a connection. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash