Having finally got around to uploading the original rss4jsp projects into SourceForge this evening I found myself with a problem – I was uploading all sorts of stuff that was not applicable. For example, Apple creates a .DS_Store file in every folder viewed by the Finder, to store information about how the folder looks in the Finder. Not essential to rss4java. For that matter, neither did I want to add my Eclipse files, but in they went…
A quick Google led me to Shane Duffy’s blog post on showing hidden files (in Unix this is anything that starts with a full stop). However this did not show folders (like the Eclipse .metadata folder). This turned out to be even easier than using Google – I just tried the obvious extrapolation.