HiddenFiles.jl

A simple tool to determine if a file directory is hidden. Works on any™ OS and file system!

This library exports one function: ishidden. Typically, a file or directory is classified as "hidden" if is it hidden from a normal directory listing. See the documentation for notes on the behaviour of ishidden.

julia> using HiddenFiles

julia> is_hidden("$(homedir())/.bashrc")
true

The origin of this project comes from julia#38841.