From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Hidden files
Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2001 00:23:38 +0200
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"D. Taupin (wanadoo-lps)" wrote:
> 
> 1. Does the "ls" command give all files, including "hidden" files, as a
> standard?

It depends on what binary do you have.  It shouldn't list the hidden files
by default, but some ports have a bug and do show them.  "ls -a" should show
all the files, including hidden ones.

> 2. Does the expansion of * in commands include hidden files.

No.

> I ask that question in order to know whether a command like "zip" or
> "cp" wil/can/will not include hidden files.
> The reason of this question is to perform backups of some directories,
> INCLUDING hidden files (not done by pkzip for example).

You cannot count on hidden files to be included.  I suggest to ``unhide''
them all (with "attrib -h d:\foo\bar /s"), copy the tree, and then make the
files that were hidden be hidden again manually.

Note that ports of Unix utilities such as `cp' cannot copy hidden files as
hidden anyway; they can only copy them as read-only.

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