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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Exclude System entries with "ls" or "find"
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7831498f-3c06-5810-354e-87c452d3a0e7@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181218081347.GD28727@calimero.vinschen.de>

On 2018-12-18 01:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 17 16:46, Steven Penny wrote:
>> Compare Cygwin:
>>    $ ls -1 -N /cygdrive/c
>>    $Recycle.Bin
>>    cygwin64
>>    Documents and Settings
>>    pagefile.sys
>>    PerfLogs
>>    Program Files
>>    Program Files (x86)
>>    ProgramData
>>    Recovery
>>    System Volume Information
>>    Users
>>    Windows
>> With Command Prompt:
>>    > dir /A:-S C:
>>    2018-12-08  10:14 AM    <DIR>          cygwin64
>>    2009-07-13  09:20 PM    <DIR>          PerfLogs
>>    2018-12-15  06:05 PM    <DIR>          Program Files
>>    2018-12-15  05:21 PM    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
>>    2018-10-31  06:07 PM    <DIR>          ProgramData
>>    2018-11-18  01:10 AM    <DIR>          Users
>>    2018-11-09  08:18 AM    <DIR>          Windows
>> as can be seen, Command Prompt has a way to exclude System items. Does Cygwin
>> have some way to do this, perhaps with "ls" or "find"?
> You're asking POSIX tools to recognize DOS attributes...
Could perhaps be supported as an env option
	CYGWIN=hidefileswithattributes:[SH]...
with a possibility of overriding that and seeing the files (as with . and ..)
when ls -a is specified, if SWTDI? Meanwhile CyNWin (no more than CyNUX).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-19  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-18  8:13 Steven Penny
2018-12-18 12:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-18 15:51   ` Eliot Moss
2018-12-18 16:19     ` cyg Simple
2018-12-19  1:10       ` Eliot Moss
2018-12-19 10:06   ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2018-12-19 12:20     ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-19 12:53       ` Andrey Repin
2018-12-19 13:37         ` Eliot Moss
2018-12-19 14:50           ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-19 15:19             ` Andrey Repin
2018-12-19 18:25               ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-19 20:57               ` Brian Inglis

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