


zshrc or whatever initialization file your shell uses. Hiding and showing the menu bar in the AWS Cloud9 IDE. alias ls='ls -I "*~"' -color to use colors to indicate file types). If you want to hide backup files from ls, you can make an alias that adds -I "*~" to the ls options: alias ls='ls -I "*~"' The GNU version of ls supports an option -I to ignore extra patterns (in addition to dot files). That is, opencv.sh~ is an earlier version of opencv.sh, created by your editor when you saved opencv.sh. If opencv.sh~ is hidden, that follows decidedly non-standard rules, so you can't legitimately complain that ls isn't following these non-standard rules.Īdding a ~ at the end of a file name is the convention for a backup file. To view hidden files, run the ls command with the -a flag which enables viewing of all files in a directory or -al flag for a long listing of files. You didn't mention which file manager you used, it's possible that it has different rules for hiding files. hidden which contains a list of files to hide (one file name per line, no patterns allowed). Gnome has launched a new convention, which is that directories can contain a file called. I don't understand what they are or why they are located in HOME. In the new installation I partitioned the hard drive giving 1.8 Tb to ubuntu 14.04 and leaving 100 Gb for Biolinux 8. , just like ls, because that's what many users expect. 1 Running Trusty Desktop with Kernel 3.16.0-50-generic 67 on x8664 My box is set up as dual boot - Ubuntu sits along WinXP, which lives in a always mounted ntfs-3g FS I have unusual hidden files that in my HOME folder (uid 1000). hidden files taking far too much space SOLVED In order to instal ubuntu 14.04 I backed up my hard drive (650 Gb). Some graphical file managers hide files whose name begins with. Ctrl+H will work in Nautilus, Nemo, Thunar etc, but for Dolphin (KDE's file manager), it may be Alt+. Pressing it again will hide all hidden folders. Press CTRL+H and all hidden folders will appear. The ls command, by default, hides files whose name begins with. I am somewhat new to Ubuntu and can't seem to find the 'view' menu. Early versions of Unix had an ls command that hid files whose name begins with. There's no property on a file that indicates that it's hidden.
