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INCSlayer · 2008-04-01 17:39:30

im trying to hide stuff without using a dot infront of them in the distros i have used before i have simply made a file called .hidden and put the names of the files in there and they get hidden this dont work on arch for some reason anyone know why or have a solution?

brebs · 2008-04-01 17:43:40

man ls

-a, --all
do not ignore entries starting with .

INCSlayer · 2008-04-01 18:34:45

first i knew that second even if i do ls without -a it still shows them this behavior is also present in konqueror whether it is set to show or not show hidden

dyscoria · 2008-04-01 18:56:34

I would assume that its a bug konqueror.

If the command 'ls' is showing hidden files, then either you've got an alias in ~/.bashrc or your system is a little buggered up

INCSlayer · 2008-04-01 19:22:51

i dont have a alias and its a fresh install

carlocci · 2008-04-02 12:33:57

INCSlayer wrote:

im trying to hide stuff without using a dot infront of them in the distros i have used before i have simply made a file called .hidden and put the names of the files in there and they get hidden this dont work on arch for some reason anyone know why or have a solution?

I can't understand your question due to a severe lack of punctuation marks.
Did you create a file named ".hidden" and write some filenames in it?

Was it a joke?

Last edited by carlocci (2008-04-02 12:34:38)

INCSlayer · 2008-04-11 09:28:57

no it was not a joke. in other distros i have used for example:
ubuntu
opensuse
mepis
creating a textfile called ".hidden" and adding the name of the folder or file you wanted to hide into it and it would become hidden without the need of you putting a dot infront of it example:
say i want to hide a file called fun i can put a dot in front of it like this: ".fun" and it would be hidden. but if there is a file that needs to access fun and if there is no file that is specifically called "fun" it will create a new one, this would make the point of using a dot infront of it useless. So instead you created a filed called ".hidden" and entered the name there it would become hidden without the dot

Last edited by INCSlayer (2008-04-11 09:29:41)

biloky · 2008-04-11 12:44:54

The .hidden file is, I think, a feature of file managers like Nautilus (not sure about Konqueror & others). It still works under Nautilus 2.22.1. But on the command line, "ls" will still display all files except files whose filename begins with a period or ends with a tilde.

http://library.gnome.org/users/user-gui … es.html.en

Last edited by biloky (2008-04-11 12:47:24)

INCSlayer · 2008-04-11 14:45:05

while you are right biloky atleast in kubuntu 6.10 if i remember correctly konqueror had the same behaviour from a patch (i think) they used it to hide most of the root file structure but had to remove it when people wondered where the hell the files had gone i dont know where to go to get a hold of this patch or what i would do with it while i know how to patch some things konqueror isnt really a standalone package and i would need to patch the entire package which supplies konqueror if the patch even works nowadays

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