If you want to see them again, press Ctrl+H keys. You won’t see the files and directories mentioned in the.
Now, close your file explorer and start it again. Here’s a sample which I used to hide the cpufetch directory and pcloud file without renaming them: pcloud Your desired files and folders should be in the same location as this special. Keep in mind that it doesn’t take absolute or relative path. Add the name of the files or folders in separate lines. Press Ctrl+H to show the hidden files and open. hidden in the directory where your desired files or folders (to be hidden) are located.Īn alternate way of hiding files in Linux So, what you do here is to create a new file named. It sure works in the Nautilus file manager of GNOME. It should work under various file managers like Nemo, Thunar, Dolphin etc but I cannot vouch for it. There is a neat trick that can be used in the Linux desktop. Similarly, there’s a firefox.tmp folder under the Downloads directory in Ubuntu 22.04 (for the snap version of Firefox). You are not going to use it but if you rename it, your snap apps won’t work as expected. The problem is that you have to rename the files and that’s not ideal in all situations.įor example, in Ubuntu, you’ll see a folder named ‘snap’ in your directory. Bonus tip: Hide files and folders without renaming them (works in GUI only) You can display the hidden files using this command: ls -la at the beginning of the original filename. You just have to rename the file by adding a. If you are stuck with the terminal, you can use the mv command to rename the file. Create hidden files and folders in Linux terminal (CLI method) To make the hidden files normal again, just rename them again by removing the dot from the beginning of the file name. Oh! how much I love keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu or any other program or OS I use. You can press Ctrl+H keys to display the hidden files. You can hide a folder along with all its contents in the same way.
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