Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:40:46 +0200 |
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On April 5, 2002 03:21 am, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > So then something like this... > > > > alias ls='/bin/ls --ignore=SCCS' > > Oh, that's very useful. Considering that everything else still finds them, > like find, shell autocompletion etc. > > The only thing "--ignore=xxx" is useful for is hackers that want to break > into your system and hide their files.
And anyway, Larry sorta/kinda agreed to let us hide his bk metadata in one or more hidden files, and when I grab him for clubbing^W dinner in a few days I'll have a good chance to beat on him further to actually get that little feature, which means more to me than it really should, personally.
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