how to prevent listing hidden files from been shown?

greythorne · 03-16-2005, 08:20 AM

hi when i do "ls" in a terminal i get all the hidden files in my home listed now how do prevent it so that no-hidden files are shown and when i do "ls -a" it will show the hidden files as well?

thnx

win32sux · 03-16-2005, 08:39 AM

ls without any options should not display hidden files, AFAIK...

check in your ~/.bachrc file to make sure there isn't an alias set for ls which is giving it the "-a" option...

Code:

cat ~/.bashrc | grep ls

greythorne · 03-16-2005, 08:46 AM

i couldn't find anything that says about ls.

thnx

abisko00 · 03-16-2005, 08:47 AM

AFAIK only root will get hidden files with 'ls'. This behaviour is defined in /etc/bash.bashrc:

Code:

# ls color option depends on the terminal
# If LS_COLROS is set but empty, the terminal has no colors.
#
if test "${LS_COLORS+empty}" = "${LS_COLORS:+empty}" ; then
    LS_OPTIONS=--color=tty
else
    LS_OPTIONS=--color=none
fi
if test "$UID" = 0 ; then
    LS_OPTIONS="-a -N $LS_OPTIONS -T 0"
else
    LS_OPTIONS="-N $LS_OPTIONS -T 0"
fi

So either you do not work as root

or look if your /etc/bash.bashrc or .bashrc is different.

whansard · 03-16-2005, 08:49 AM

run the command
alias
and all aliases will be shown.
unalias ls
is a quick fix that will only work for that login session

perfect_circle · 03-16-2005, 09:01 AM

when putting \ before a command, then the real command is executed and not the existing allias.
SO

Code:

\ls

will run the real ls command.
To permantly fix it do what the others told you.
If you are running as root all the time, stop doing it....