miranda363 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Does anyone know the command to change a files attribute to hidden? please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Does anyone know the command to change a files attribute to hidden? please Hidden in what way - from the OS X finder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 The way I do it in Mac is click to rename the file or folder then place a peroid at the begining of the name. This makes it hidden to Finder Sample .folder .file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Does anyone know the command to change a files attribute to hidden? please If you had Xcode Tools installed, in Terminal write this to hide a file/dir: /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a -V /path-to/file and write this if you want to show: /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a -v /path-to/file -a means attributes -V (UPPERCASE) means hide -v (lowercase) means show The only thing I can not hide are links like /etc -> /private/etc, /tmp -> /private/tmp and /var -> /private/var Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miranda363 Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 Excellent people thanks for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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