Help.

[Sir Frizz]

How do you unhide hidden folders? I can't find a file i hid today.

 

[Munkey-]

lost ure pr0n eh?

in win98 SE: open up my computer. go to VIEW -> FOLDER OPTIONS - > VIEW. then select show all files

 

[Summo]

Which operating system, Frizz?

In XP go to Tools | Folder Options, click the View tab and check the Show hidden files and folders option.

 

[caLLous]

Also in XP: if you know what the file is called but you don't know where it is, click on the Search tab in an explorer window, drop down the More advanced options thing, and tick Search hidden files and folders.

 

[Sir Frizz]

Ch33rZ

It was in XP.

 

[prime1]

Exactly what is the point in the hide files option? Since its so easy to see them when hidden anyway?

 

[dysfunction]

So your folder listing doesnt look cluttered...or prevents you from deleting stuff by accident that you dont look at often...

 

[Sir Frizz]

Originally posted by prime1
Exactly what is the point in the hide files option? Since its so easy to see them when hidden anyway?

Isn't it to hide them from other users of a computer with different accounts looking into shared folders?

 

[Testin da Cable]

iirc it was originally done to protect system stuff [and to hide things from nosy cunt0rs]

 

[Shocko]

ls -a

 

[Testin da Cable]

indeed.

 

[wolfeeh]

aha

seeing as you've bought up ls -a

you might have noticed from another thread that i've just gotten my new mac, and i'm dabbling with unix...

how would one go about listing all the mp3's recursively off the root of my mac?

i would have thought

cd /
ls -ar *.mp3

would have done the job (yes i've tried capital r too i can't remember which it's meant to be at the moment (on pc))

 

[Testin da Cable]

ls -R < should list all files recursively from the dir you are in.
if it doesn't try <man ls>

 

[Shocko]

That should work, except unless i'm going mad, you're actually recursivly listing all files/directories which end in '.mp3'. You want something like:
find / -name .mp3 -type f
OR
cd /; ls -ar * | grep .mp3

Maybe it is -R for recursive, but i'm on a windows box at college, so i can't check the man pages...

 

[Testin da Cable]

cat /etc/passwd |grep shocko| awk '{print substr ($1,1,6)}'|userdel -r $1