Re: LS command returns hidden files on OS X Leopard server
Re: LS command returns hidden files on OS X Leopard server
- Subject: Re: LS command returns hidden files on OS X Leopard server
- From: LuKreme <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:15:47 -0600
On 24-Oct-2009, at 12:25, Jim Skibbie wrote:
The script runs on a machine running OS X Leopard Server with the user
logged in as root. I don’t know if being logged in as root has
something to
do with it or not.
This is why. The default ls command for the root user is almost always
set to
ls -A
(not ls -a, ls -A which shows hidden files, but does not show the .
and .. directories).
use /bin/ls if you want to avoid the aliases.
--
Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. --The Last Continent
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