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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Feb 1995.
Re: How to create hidden file?

Re: How to create hidden file?

Mark Ransom <mar...@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote:
|Doesn't seem like the appropriate place to discuss this,
|but here's my contribution...
|
|How to create hidden file in unix?
|
|say you have a file called foo.1
|
|to make this file 'hidden' simple type
|
|rm foo.1
|
|:)
|
|for all files in a directory type rm *
|
|:) :) :)
|
Why tell the guy that :( rm will erase your file(s)
To make a file "hidden" place a "." in the front of the file name .. ie: .file.abc

-Bob

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