On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, RE: Linux
hidden file equivalent:
> Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/16/2000 12:57:13 PM
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Barry Carroll wrote about, RE: Linux hidden file
> equivalent:
> > hey,
> >
> > all you do is put a period (.) in front of the name.
> >
> > you will have to ls -a to see them then.
>
> Yep, and everyone else.
> So thats not really hiding a file is it.!.
>
> Well, here is what I was trying to do.
> I am a long time OS/2 user. There I can hide a file via "ATTRIB +H anyfile."
> Then without regard to anything else issue the command "DEL *.*", and keep the
> hidden file. I do this after I get out of Netscape, to delete all disk cache
> without deleting FAT.DB.
> I was trying to do same thing in Linux. Is this possible as easily as in OS/2?
I gave you examples in my origanal answer, so did others.
>
> Thanks for al the help anyway. Any more suggestions?
chmod
chown
chgrp
>
>
>
> Masoud
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