To show or see all the hidden files in a directory, you can use the ls command followed by the -a flag in the directory in Linux.
For example, to see all the hidden files in the myFiles directory, you can use the ls -a command like this,
# Show all files including
# hidden files in a directory
ls -a
This will show all the hidden files in the myFiles directory.
How do I know which files are hidden files?
- In most Linux distributions, the hidden files start with a
.symbol followed by the name of that file. - To hide a file called
hello.txt, we can add a.(dot symbol) to the start of the filename, so its name will now appear as.hello.txt.
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That's all 😃!