From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Hidden files Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 00:23:38 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3BC0D5EA.4D66AC38@is.elta.co.il> References: <3BC0C2DF DOT AB756C49 AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.116.55.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1002493397 21398554 192.116.55.139 (16 [61365]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "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.