Commands by JakeCarter (1)

  • Hiding and Show files on Mac OS X

    These commands will mark a file as hidden or visible to Mac OS X Finder. Notice the capitol V vs the lowercase v. This will also work for directories. setfile -a V foo.bar; // This marks the file invisible setfile -a v foo.bar; // This marks the file visible I have also found that adding the following aliases are helpful: alias hide='setfile -a V' alias show='setfile -a v'


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    setfile -a V foo.bar; setfile -a v foo.bar;
    JakeCarter · 2009-08-12 17:16:03 6

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