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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3718-darwin/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3718-darwin/#findComment-23607 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3718-darwin/#findComment-23611 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3718-darwin/#findComment-23803 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3718-darwin/#findComment-24280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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