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Hide IRAF directory in the Finder

March 14th, 2003 by admin

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p>Here’s a tip – don’t want anyone seeing or fooling with the iraf directory on the root of your hard drive? You can add the iraf directory to the list of hidden directories that the Finder ignores (like /usr, /bin, /etc). Just open up a Terminal window and

% cd /
% sudo pico .hidden

Then using pico scroll to the bottom and add iraf to the list. Or, if you want to see lots of hidden directories (careful not to break anything, don’t make mach.sym visible and trash it, for instance) you can remove any of the directories already present.

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