Hello! On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:27:19PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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.
He wants `echo *' to not display these files anymore and so forth, I guess. Regards, Thomas
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