Hiding and Show files on Mac OS X

• Search inside a folder of jar/zip files

  Great for finding which jar some pesky class is hiding in! Show Sample Output

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  $ find . -name "*.jar" | xargs -tn1 jar tvf | grep --color "VirtualDirContext"
  jar tvf ./catalina.jar
    4759 Fri Jul 20 04:17:30 BST 2007 org/apache/naming/resources/VirtualDirContext.class

  
  

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  find . -name "*.jar" | xargs -tn1 jar tvf | grep --color "SearchTerm"
  unixmonkey1092 · 2009-02-16 17:18:36 0
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• execute your commands hiding secret bits from history records

  wget --user=username --password="$password" http://example.org/ Instead of hiding commands entirely from history, I prefer to use "read" to put the password into a variable, and then use that variable in the commands instead of the password. Without the "-e" and "-s" it should work in any bourne-type shell, but the -s is what makes sure the password doesn't get echoed to the screen at all. (-e makes editing work a bit better)

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  read -e -s -p "Password: " password
  freiheit · 2010-08-18 17:53:27 1
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• rot13 simple substitution cipher via command line

  E.g. Useful for hiding spoilers in reviews, etc. Show Sample Output

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  ~% echo Command-line-fu | rot13
  Pbzznaq-yvar-sh
  ~% echo Pbzznaq-yvar-sh | rot13
  Command-line-fu

  
  

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  alias rot13='perl -pe "y/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;"'
  abcde · 2009-02-06 14:22:43 2
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• Show a listing of open mailbox files (or whatever you want to modify it to show)

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  lsof | grep "/var/spool/mail/"
  bseaver · 2009-02-19 13:52:12 0
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well, there is no "setfile" command on osx-leopard

vigo · 462 weeks and 4 days ago

hmmm. sorry my bad!

vigo · 462 weeks and 4 days ago

well, hides only "Finder"... still visible for cli

vigo · 462 weeks and 4 days ago

I have setfile, I think it came with developertools, but i'm not sure. great command, i've used it myself to hide /opt becouse instaling macports unhide it.

irae · 462 weeks and 4 days ago

Interesting (though i'm a little late to the party it seems). I found it, but as I have a case-sensitive filesystem, I have to type SetFile -a V foo.bar; Naturally I could alias or link the file to 'setfile'. Meh!

fukr · 348 weeks and 1 day ago

There is also the chflags command: chflags hidden /path/to/file/or/folder chflags nohidden /path/to/file/or/folder

plasticphyte · 249 weeks and 6 days ago

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