aBinaryMind » lost+found http://www.abinarymind.com Some thoughts, some info, some rants Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:36:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to hide files in Nautilus http://www.abinarymind.com/2009/09/how-to-hide-files-in-nautilus/ http://www.abinarymind.com/2009/09/how-to-hide-files-in-nautilus/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:05:25 +0000 lexhung http://www.abinarymind.com/?p=86 In Linux, files which name start by a dot ‘.’ are hidden by default in most file managers. However, there are cases when we want to hide dot-file from our view. For examples:

  • Desktop folder in our home folder.
  • Dropbox
  • lost+found directory at the partition root
  • …

In Nautilus (default GNOME file manager) there’s a way. Add a file named

.hidden

with each line is the name of the file/folder you want to hide.

For example, if you want to hide Desktop from home folder you may type this command in the terminal:

$ echo "Desktop" > ~/.hidden

Note: This trick only works in Nautilus. It won’t work in Konqueror or Dolphin. I don’t know if it works in other file managers or not.

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