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A file that is normally not visible for the user, unless the user requires to show the hidden files. It is still accessible by name and path as any other file.

A file that is normally not visible for the user, unless the user requires to show the hidden files by turning a setting in file explorer or using additional switch with command line tools. It is still accessible by name and path as any other file.

Windows systems have a true hidden file attribute allowing to hide file having any name. Unix systems (like Linux) do not have such attribute and instead hides all files whose names start from dot (like .ssh). Unix command ls requires an -a switch to list such files and folders.

Hiding files may result more user friendly behavior but it is also a method to mask viruses and other exploits.

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How to create a toggle hidden file button

I am trying to create a service in automator that helps me make a file/folder hidden or unhidden. I am a very new beginner and do not know anything about automator and I have only tried putting different services together but I don't even know how…
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Creating and Moving an Invisible file with OS X 10.8 Terminal

I'm fairly new to using the terminal, but have so far figured out through various forums how to hide a file from the Finder, but once hidden, I'm obviously unable to move it to the flash drive I want to keep it on, and I can't figure out any way…
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"Android SDK: Manage add-on sites" won't reload user-defined site after eclipse re-install

I recently had to completely re-install eclipse (e.g. androideclipse installed from http://www.android.com/). Before my re-install I happened to be using a user-defined add-on site ( e.g. https://broadcom-ble.googlecode.com/files/repository.xml) …
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Hiding Unknown Files in Batch Files

Hey guys i need to know how to hide a file of which i dont know the name of. for instance i have 6 folders named 1-6 but i think that their named a-f. and their directory is C:\users\all users\bond. how would i go about doing this? I dont need to…
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Finding hidden files (video files) within an image

I have a file, which is a image in a format JPEG. I want to find out whether it has hidden content (video files). Is there something I can attempt to find the hidden content (video files) in this specific situation? We can assume it is not a method…
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How do I change the "show hidden files" setting?

How do I enable or disable the "show hidden filles and folders" and "show system hidden files and folders" options within my program? (I'm not meaning to change the file attributes to be hidden or not — I need to change the Windows options.) Is it…
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Is it possible to write to a hidden file in Java?

I have figured out how to create a hidden file in Java, now I need to write large amounts of data to the file. I keep getting the following exception:SEVERE: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \tmp (Access is denied) Here are two approaches I…
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Tar Directory Contents Without Creating A Root Folder In Archive

I am running the following snippet in a bash script in a folder. This creates an archive where there is no root folder since I am running the script within the folder whose contents I am archiving. tar -pczf $ARCHIVE_NAME --exclude=${ARCHIVE_NAME}…
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Quit hidden attribute to many files in a directory once in UNIX

Hello Everybody there. I wanna know if there is a command of set of commands (maybe a pipeline set) which can be used to change the hidden attribute of many files stored in a particular directory, with the same name. ie. ls -la inside…
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Cannot access hidden folder on android version 11 and later devices in flutter

When I try to access the contents of a hidden folder using directory, I get empty contents when trying to access hidden folders (starts with '.'). I've already added Read and Write permission to external storage inside AndroidMainifest.xml. The only…
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[Solved]I wrote a program put it in the start folder and it disappeared but still runs

I wrote a small program to check if my network is down it looks like this: @echo off set ipaddr=172.217.11.238 set oldstate=neither :loop set state=up ping -n 1 !ipaddr! >nul: 2>nul: if not !errorlevel!==0 set state=down if not !state!==!oldstate!…
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How does Linux Kernel treat hidden files?

"Hidden files" are files with name prefix ., e.g. /home/pxf/.xxx. .xxx is an invisible file and 'ls' will not list it. Is there a concept of "hidden file" On Linux Kernel? I mean that are there difference between "regular files" and "hidden…
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Why does ~ symbol is coming when ls command is given

I was working on a desktop server of Ubuntu 12.04 through putty. When I was giving the ls command in a directory the text file are given along with the same text file followed by a ~ symbol is provided. Last login: Tue Nov 12 10:34:45 2013 from…
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Accessing hidden appdata in Google Drive

So, this may have an obvious answer, but I couldn't find anything on it so I figured I'd just try asking. Basically, I was using a free Minecraft server host called "Aternos" to work on a server before paying for the actual one. I didn't realize…
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Hiding a folder in android not using "." extension

How can I hide a folder in android? I am downloading some data from the app which must be accessible only through my application. Currently, I am hiding folders by putting "." extension to the folder name and saving it in the app directory. But it…
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