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

Linus Torvalds
2002-04-05T01:22:12Z

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
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> So then something like this...
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> alias ls='/bin/ls --ignore=SCCS'

Oh, that's very useful. Considering that everything else still finds them,
like find, shell autocompletion etc.

The only thing "--ignore=xxx" is useful for is hackers that want to break
into your system and hide their files.

Linus