Unhiding Unix Directories
I would like to "unhide" some of the standard unix directories so that they're visible in the Finder. Is this simply a matter of editing the .hidden file?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Matching white Peterbilt 386
Oh brother, I see what I did now. Your post, rccharles, even though it was the opposite of what I was trying to do, made me go back and look at the .hidden file. My mistake was in unthinkingly editing out bin instead of usr. That is what prevented the directory being visible. But since I hadn't changed the flag on bin - which I had no intention of making visible in the first place - it did not appear in Finder, so I did not notice my mistake.
The correct answer would be:
To make a standard unix file or directory visible, remove its entry from the .hidden file, then change the visibility flag either with chflag:
sudo chflags nohidden /foo
Or with SetFile:
sudo SetFile -a v /foo
Assuming, of course, that you've added /Developer/Tools to your path.
Thanks everyone for all of your help! (though I feel a litlle foolish at the moment)
