Stupid Finder tricks

As a unix geek, I like to see and sometimes browse /usr for various reasons.  While I can do it from the command line, it would be nice to be able to do it in the Finder.  Thanks to information I found in the article Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks I was able to make /usr not hidden anymore.  (The article is from 2002, but this bit of imformation is still relevant.)  The following command removes the HFS+ hidden attribute and that lets the Finder show it.  As the full path below implies, you need to have the developer tools installed.

# /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v /usr

This entry was written by Keith Garner, posted on 5/26/2006 at 11:46 am, filed under Geek, OS X. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Jason
    Posted 5/26/2006 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

    You probably need to restart the Finder after you do this.  If it has seen the metadata for something (e.g., you browsed /) it’s cached and I haven’t found a way to invalidate that cache short of restarting the app.

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