Hiding files of a certain extension (.pyc) from all Finder dialogs
Well, I wouldn't normally suggest this... But you asked...
Assuming Leopard:
find -x /path/to/folder -name \*.pyc -exec chflags hidden {} +
Just supply the proper "/path/to/folder". The drawback is that it has to be done periodically for newly created files. And this also hides file from ls
in Terminal. From man chflags
:
Only a limited number of utilities are
chflags
aware. Some of these tools includels
,cp
,find
,install
,dump
, andrestore
.
Prior to Snow Leopard, you can try to edit the .hidden file that is in the root of the boot drive. That contains a list of hidden file types... But it doesn't exist on my Snow Leopard system, so it may have only existed in 10.4.