Hiding and viewing dot files in Mac's Finder

Hi,

I was talking about the problem that Finder is per default hiding dot files before. In most cases you get away with the default, but sometimes it really sucks that you cannot drill down into your 'hidden' directories. Since I work a lot with bash I added the following function to my ~./bashrc :

function switchFinderOptions()
{
SHOW_DOT_FILES="defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES"
HIDE_DOTFILES="defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO"
echo "Choose finder mode:"
echo  $SHOW_DOT_FILES '[1] ' ;
echo  $HIDE_DOTFILES '[2] ' ;
read ans
case "$ans" in
1) `$SHOW_DOT_FILES`;;
2) `$HIDE_DOTFILES`;;
esac
killall Finder
}

After adding this function it becomes very easy to switch the Finder mode and quickly drill down a hidden directory structure.

Hope it helps.

--Hardy