Comments on: An Easy Way to Hide Files and Directories in Linux

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:53:43 +0000

“Security by Obscurity” seldom works. What is to prevent nogoodnik from displaying hidden files?

By: Alan S.

Alan S. — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:52:45 +0000

In reply to subhash. . and .. are not real files/directories. It's a convenient way to navigate across the directory tree. . means the current directory, .. means back one directory. For example, if I'm in /home/user/Desktop and I want to go to /home/user, I can use 'cd ..'. If I want to reference a file in the current directory, I could either use 'file' or './file' (the latter is more reliable, next to the full path).

By: ggee

ggee — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:11:14 +0000

In reply to subhash. '.' means current directory...

By: subhash

subhash — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:59:56 +0000

what is . and .. while listing the files? is it a file name with '.' and '..' ?

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:18:49 +0000

In reply to Mitch.

@Mitch,

Linux Mint 18 with Mate desktop..