Hidden in what sense? On Linux, files whose name start with a period are "hidden" (by convention, many commands ignore them)
On OS X, files and directories that are hidden to the Finder have a special attribute in the file system. I don't think there's an accessor for that in Pharo yet, but as a workaround you can use the system command GetFileInfo to check the state of the invisibility flag (v): GetFileInfo -a v /Applications # should echo 0 (invisibility flag not set) GetFileInfo -a v /bin # should echo 1 On 9 April 2016 at 21:12, Robert J Rothwell <r.j.rothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to determine if a file is hidden? I couldn't find that in > "Deep into Pharo". > > For example, I can get my desktop files with: > > desktopFiles := FileLocator desktop children. > > And now I would like to filter that collection to the non-hiddent files > with something like: > > desktopFiles select: [:each | each isHidden not ] > > But there doesn't seem to be anything like "isHidden" for a FileLocator > object. > > Thank you, > > Rob Rothwell > >
