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ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
- From: Wendell Pinegar <wpinegar at healthtech dot net>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:01:48 -0600
- Subject: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
There seems to be a long running defect in the implementation of ls.exe. It
shows windows system hidden files - which it shouldn't do by default. On
Unix systems files are hidden by placing a period in front of the filename
(ie, .profile), but in the windows world files are not routinely hidden this
way but are more commonly hidden by setting the hidden attribute on the
file.
Shouldn't ls.exe honor the file system attribute and not show the hidden
windows files?
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