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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:21:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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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.

		Linus

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