Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 20:21:25 EST


On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> So then something like this...
>
> alias ls='/bin/ls --ignore=SCCS'

Oh, that's very useful. Considering that everything else still finds them,
like find, shell autocompletion etc.

The only thing "--ignore=xxx" is useful for is hackers that want to break
into your system and hide their files.

                Linus

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