Hiding files and folders & e.g., not i.e.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Manual |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Jason Cook |
Bug Description
Rev. 788
Ch.2, § "Creating new folders", p. 30 (PDF p. 32)
Types: suggestion, grammar
Manual states:
If you wish to hide certain folders or files, place a dot (.) in front of the name (i.e., “.Personal Finances”).
This is true, but is it really the best way?
Creating a text file called .hidden and typing the files and subdirectories you wish to hide on separate lines is, I believe, a much neater solution, allowing more naming freedom; it's also the only viable way to hide Windows system directories.
For example, on my dual-boot laptop I have in /mnt/WindowsHD/
$Recycle.Bin
System Volume Information
hiberfil.sys
pagefile.sys
msdia80.dll
System Recovery
Windows
Renaming any of these so the name starts with a dot would be extremely unwise, but leaving them always visible almost invites mishaps.
So I suggest mention of this method in addition to the start-name-with-dot method.
The quoted text also uses "i.e." (that is) when "e.g." (for example) is likely the better Latin abbreviation.
Changed in ubuntu-manual: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in ubuntu-manual: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
the way you recommend work in nautilus but not when using the "ls" command. I may or may not work using other file managers so I don't think that this should be included.