On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> >
> > So then something like this...
> >
> > 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.
Ugh, this is linux-kernel! (cfr. signature)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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