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

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:21:25 -0800 (PST)


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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