SetFile -a v theFile makes it visible but if its name begins with a dot all bets are off.
It's MPW all over again except for the case sensitivity of setfile which gave me fits. And did you notice that BBEdit 6 offers some of the in-line command editing that I like about MPW? All they need now is window<->file morphing and I could be happy again. At 15:06 -0700 10/29/02, Charles Albrecht wrote: >At 1:53 PM -0800 10/29/2002, Rich Morin wrote: >>I can't find a command-line method (let alone a Perl function) >>to change the "visibility" of files and folders. Help? > >/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V foo > >.....see the SetFile(1) manpage for details > >There may be some tricks with getting the Finder to recognize the file really is >invisible. > >-Charles Albrecht > Euonymic Solutions > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <--
