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. Regards Uno Engborg _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
