I'm using zenity 2.28.0 in a bash script (under kde4) to select multiple files in a directory. It works fine, but always defaults to showing hidden files.

How can I get it to hide hidden files by default?

I know about toggling them on and off with Ctrl-H, but I would prefer not to have to use that.

I have my options set so that dolphin and konqueror do not show hidden files by default. I even tried adding shopt -u dotglob to my script.

TIA

Joe

kubuntu karmic

zenity invocation (extracted from a more complex statement):
zenity --title "Select Print Files to Delete" --file-selection --multiple

As far as I know Zenity does not provide that type of selection filter.

A friend at the local lug found it for me. It's in the help files, but only if you get help on the file-selection command itself. It's kind of like an Easter egg.

zenity --title "Select Print Files to Delete" --file-selection --multiple --file-filter=[A-Za-z0-9]*

Joe

Thanks for posting the solution!

Of course that will also "hide" file with whitespace or special characters (I use underscore a lot).

Edit: well that's embarrassing - my underscore files got included regardless. But I show no "dot" files - ever. Filter or not.
So something is amiss somewhere.

syg00: Good point. I'll modify it.

unSpawn: I ask a lot more questions than those I solve, so I always try to give back when I can.

Joe