rsiedl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know if it's possible to give a directory a "description" under a Unix file system?
I want to do a readdir on a directory and if there are any dirs underneath that, display a "description" rather than the directory name.
I could create a .description file or something, but I was wondering if there could be a "cleaner" way.

Cheers,
Reagen

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Re: directory descriptions
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jun 11, 2004 at 11:49 UTC
    There's no offical way of doing this under UNIX.

    Dave.

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      Oh well. Thanks Dave.
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