What are the commands to make a file hidden and to delete all hidden files in the folder?

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jhark123

  • Nov 16th, 2007
 

Rename the file so that it starts with (.)
For example if you have a file called file.txt just rename it to .file.txt
mv file.txt .file.txt

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To hide the files simply rename the file with mv command like filename follows with a dot(.).

$mv filename .filename
To see the hidden files
$ls -a
To remove the hidden files
$rm .*

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Abhinav

  • Jan 19th, 2016
 

rm -rf .* will delete all files present in all current directories. but suppose you have to delete file in a particular directory. we can use find.
find dir -type f -name .* -maxdepth 3|xargs rm -f
or
find dir -type f -name .* -maxdepth 3 exec rm -f {} ;

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sergry

  • Jan 31st, 2016
 

find . -maxdepth 1 -name ".*" -type f -delete
mv filename .filename

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Yugandhar reddy

  • Sep 24th, 2016
 

rm `ls -a | grep "^." | tail -n +3` # for removing all hidden files
mv file .file # for making a file hidden

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Anupam Kumar

  • Oct 27th, 2016
 

To hide a file- mv filename1.dat .filename.date
to remove only hidden file-

Code
  1. $ ls -l | awk {print $9} > file1.txt

  2. $ ls -la | awk {print $9} > file2.txt

  3. $ rm "comm -2 file1.txt file2.txt"

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Pradip

  • Sep 14th, 2017
 

mv file.txt .file.txt ----for making file hidden
rm .* -------for deleting hidden files.

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