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@@ -50,31 +50,8 @@ pub struct FileFilter {
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/// This came about more or less by a complete historical accident,
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/// when the original `ls` tried to hide `.` and `..`:
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- /// https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
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///
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- /// When one typed ls, however, these files appeared, so either Ken or
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- /// Dennis added a simple test to the program. It was in assembler then,
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- /// but the code in question was equivalent to something like this:
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- /// if (name[0] == '.') continue;
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- /// This statement was a little shorter than what it should have been,
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- /// which is:
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- /// if (strcmp(name, ".") == 0 || strcmp(name, "..") == 0) continue;
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- /// but hey, it was easy.
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- ///
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- /// Two things resulted.
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- ///
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- /// First, a bad precedent was set. A lot of other lazy programmers
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- /// introduced bugs by making the same simplification. Actual files
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- /// beginning with periods are often skipped when they should be counted.
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- ///
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- /// Second, and much worse, the idea of a "hidden" or "dot" file was
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- /// created. As a consequence, more lazy programmers started dropping
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- /// files into everyone's home directory. I don't have all that much
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- /// stuff installed on the machine I'm using to type this, but my home
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- /// directory has about a hundred dot files and I don't even know what
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- /// most of them are or whether they're still needed. Every file name
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- /// evaluation that goes through my home directory is slowed down by
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- /// this accumulated sludge.
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+ /// [Linux History: How Dot Files Became Hidden Files](https://linux-audit.com/linux-history-how-dot-files-became-hidden-files/)
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pub dot_filter: DotFilter,
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/// Glob patterns to ignore. Any file name that matches *any* of these
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