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

Albert D. Cahalan
2002-04-05T01:04:20Z

Daniel Phillips writes:
> On January 30, 2002 10:33 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>> I still dislike some things (those SHOUTING SCCS files) in bk, and let's
>> be honest: I've used CVS, but I've never really used BK. Larry has given
>> me the demos, and I actually decided to re-do the examples, but it takes
>> time and effort to get used to new tools, and I'm a bit worried that
>> I'll find other things to hate than just those loud filenames.
>
> Oh gosh, I hate those too. (Yes, this is a "me too".) Larry, could we
> *please* have that metadata in a .file?

Try "man ls":

-I, --ignore=PATTERN
do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN

So then something like this...

alias ls='/bin/ls --ignore=SCCS'