ls incorrectly shows system hidden files

[Kim Scarborough]

> I just noticed that the "ls" command in cygwin shows Windows system hidden
> files.  Hidden files shouldn't be listed by the ls command!  Can this be
> changed?

Heh. Funny complaint. Probably the solution that's the most theoretically
faithful to the cygwin philosophy would be to somehow get ls to not list those
files unless you specified -a. The thing is, though, that this would probably
be a huge PITA to code for a feature that almost nobody wants anyway. So I
wouldn't hold my breath.

Here's the only kludge I could think of. Add this to your .bash_profile (or
/etc/profile if you want it to be global):

alias ls='cmd /c dir'

Or something like that, blah.

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