On 2008-07-30 01:30:17 +0100, Curmudgeon <leave@me.alone> said:
> In article <6f8iuqFafq5mU1@mid.individual.net>, Chris Ridd > <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote: > >> On 2008-07-29 13:07:16 +0100, Curmudgeon <leave@me.alone> said: >> >>> Well unfortunately, what I see is: >>> >>> [adsl-70-131-83-28:~] steve% ls -lO / >>> ls: illegal option -- O >>> usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRSTWZabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...] >>> [adsl-70-131-83-28:~] steve% >>> >>> which is why I tried "o" instead. Please advise . . . >> >> I think it is a Leopard-only option - are you running Tiger? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris > > Right you are, Chris! As I said in my original message (long since > buried in this meandering thread), I'm running 10.4.11 on a hot rod > Digital Audio G4. So there you go . . .
Rats, sorry. There's a website with the 10.4 manpages on: <http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/ls/osx-10.4.php>. It looks like -o (lowercase letter o) is what you want and what you tried. However one of the changes between 10.4 and 10.5 looks like it was to make the other HFS+ "Finder" flags like "hidden" more consistently accessible. So I can't see how to show this flag using 10.4 tools.
Instead of getting the developer tools installed, the 14-day demo of Bar Bones Super Get Info appears to let you toggle a file/folders hidden (calls it invisible) flag. Try it out.
Here if I "Open Hidden" I can see /private, /etc, and so on, and opening /etc without resolving the alias shows me /etc points to /private/etc, and is Invisible.
