In Unix systems, files and directories that begin with . are "hidden". Microsoft Office creates temporary files that begin with ~$, such as ~$Unnamed_document.docx. I would like to make bash – and especially ls – treat these files as hidden files, too. Is that possible? If so, how?
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1This might help: `man ls | grep hide` – Cyrus Feb 02 '20 at 06:16
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You could define this alias:
alias ls=ls --hide='~$*'
Files starting with ~$ will be hidden. Use ls -a to show the hidden files.
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