Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Krzysztof Duleba Subject: Re: Cannot write files if they are hidden Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:53:47 +0200 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <42E11E4C DOT 3090406 AT hones DOT org DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Dave Korn wrote: >> It seems that at the moment a windows hidden file is listed by "ls", can >> be read and appended to, but cannot be replaced. > > The same as in Windoze. HTH! That's true only to some extend. echo foo > hidden_file fails both in cmd and cygwin, but Windows editors (notepad, edit) can edit hidden files no problem. Krzysztof Duleba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/