I have a group of files I want hidden to avoid clutter. Is there a command that can simply make multiple files hidden? Is there an application? Is there a single command that will make the files I've listed hidden?
Thanks.
I have a group of files I want hidden to avoid clutter. Is there a command that can simply make multiple files hidden? Is there an application? Is there a single command that will make the files I've listed hidden?
Thanks.
The Linux convention is to rename them to start with a .
. Most programs, including Nautilus (the GNOME file browser), Dolphin (KDE), and command-line programs like ls
and Bash's shell globbing, will then hide them (by default).
To rename multiple files simultaneously, you could use any of several graphical tools:
In PyRenamer, select your files, activate the "Insert / Delete" tab, and tell it to insert a .
at position 1:
From the command-line, the conventional way is to use mv
and find
(if needed). If you have only a few specific files you want to hide, run:
for f in file0 file1 file2 file3; do mv "$f" ".$f"; done
to append a .
to each file's names.
If you have several similarly-named files you want to hide (e.g. any file starting with hideme
), use shell globbing:
for f in hideme*; do mv "$f" ".$f"; done