walstib

 Profile Answers by walstib 

• Aug 7th, 2009

 

Create the file with a . as the first character in the filename. 

kranth.pothuganti

 Profile Answers by kranth.pothuganti 

• Aug 19th, 2009

 

Unix will treat all the files whose names start with a '.' as hidden.
So you can prevent your files from getting listed by LS command by changing it's name such that it starts with a '.'