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Asked: 2015-12-27 02:20:41 +0800 CST

Can I hide files so that they are hidden on both Windows and Linux?

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I have my computer set up to use the same home folder / user profile for Linux and Windows. As a consequence I have files like NTUSER.DAT that are hidden on Windows showing up when I ls and in my file manager. Is there any way to make Linux hide the hidden files?

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  1. Add the files you want to hide to a file named .hidden with 1 file per line inside the directory those files are. Somehing like ls {files} >.hidden will work to quickly do this.

    • You can hide files looking from Windows with C:\>attrib +h D:\*.hidden /S (this will hide the .hidden file from the previous method). The directory I assumed D:.

    • You can hide these files from ls on Linux by adding this into your ~./bashrc:

      ls () {
  if [ -f .hidden ]; then
    declare GLOBIGNORE="$GLOBIGNORE:.*:$(tr '\n' ':' < .hidden)"
    ls "$@"
  fi
}

      This will hide the files when using ls and ls only. It also assumes you do not already have an alias for ls. ls -l will still show them but that is just another alias.

    The last command I found on superuser. Please upvote that answer ;)

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