Reveal is an application for Mac OS X that reveals and hides hidden folders and files in Mac OS X in the finder. You can quit Reveal at any time, but if Reveal is terminated while hidden files and folders are visible, it will politely set them to hidden before it exits.
You can download Reveal and read more about it here .
Source code is included with the download. It is in Xcode project form and is under a MIT style license.
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Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist.