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Old 12-12-2008
Hiding the Directory

Hi,

I have a directory i want to just hide this directory.

Could you please tell me the command to hide directory.
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Old 12-12-2008
Hide?
From who?
Depending of your answers : by setting adequate perms or renaming the dir (.<dirname>)

Last edited by vbe; 12-12-2008 at 06:01 AM..
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Old 12-12-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by shivanete
Hi,

I have a directory i want to just hide this directory.

Could you please tell me the command to hide directory.
Did you mean creating a hidden directory ?

Code:
.<directory_name>

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