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Started by miranda363, Oct 22 2005 12:46 AM

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miranda363

Posted 22 October 2005 - 12:46 AM

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Does anyone know the command to change a files attribute to hidden? please

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Posted 22 October 2005 - 03:09 AM

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miranda363, on Oct 21 2005, 08:46 PM, said:

Does anyone know the command to change a files attribute to hidden? please

Hidden in what way - from the OS X finder?

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Posted 22 October 2005 - 03:34 AM

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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
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.folder
.file

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Posted 23 October 2005 - 04:44 AM

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miranda363, on Oct 21 2005, 07:46 PM, said:

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