On 21 May 2015 at 15:39, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:55:13PM +0000, Albert-Jan Roskam via Tutor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to hide .pyc and .pyo files because they are visually >> distracting. Is the aforementioned command the best way? [1]. > > It isn't clear what you mean by "hide them". > > If you mean that you want to use the ls command to get a directory > listing, but just not see the .pyc files, then all you need is: > > ls *.py > > which will list the .py files and nothing else. > > You can remove the .pyc and .pyo files, or move them elsewhere: > > rm *.py[co] > > mv *.py[co] some/other/directory/ > > and let Python recreate them as needed. > > If you're using a GUI file manager, there may be an option to hide > certain files. I know that KDE 3, at least, hides files starting with a > leading dot, and backup files ending with ~ so it's quite likely that > there's a way to hide .pyc and .pyo files. Check the documentation for > your GUI file manager. > > The command you give: > > ls *.py[co] >> .hidden > > doesn't hide anything. It lists the .pyc and .pyo files, but rather than > printing to the terminal, it appends them to a file called .hidden in > the current directory. > > Ah, wait, I see! Nautilus uses the .hidden file to suppress the display > of those files. > > I wonder whether putting a single line: > > .*py[co] > > inside .hidden will work? You need to try it, or ask a Gnome expert. > > > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
ls *.pyc *.pso >> .hidden should work root@localhost:~# mkdir hide_test root@localhost:~# cd hide_test/ root@localhost:~/hide_test# touch a.pyc b.pyc c.pyo d.py e.txt root@localhost:~/hide_test# ls a.pyc b.pyc c.pyo d.py e.txt root@localhost:~/hide_test# ls *.pyc *.pyo >> .hidden root@localhost:~/hide_test# cat .hidden a.pyc b.pyc c.pyo root@localhost:~/hide_test# As this adds specific results of ls you will need to schedule the command through cron to get it to automatically add new files -- Bodsda _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
