Need help with Unix.
have a directory called South and have 4 files inside it called Accounting, Sales, Manufacturing and Inventory. Now I have to change all the files inside the South structure to hidden.
how will I do this ?
i tried doing mv South .South but when i do ls -a i see .South
how will i make it hidden so thats its not visible ?

Question

Need help with Unix.
have a directory called South and have 4 files inside it called Accounting, Sales, Manufacturing and Inventory. Now I have to change all the files inside the South structure to hidden.
how will I do this ?
i tried doing mv South .South but when i do ls -a i see .South 
how will i make it hidden so thats its not visible ?

anonymous · Answer

greetings - 'ls -a' will indeed display "hidden" files as that's the reason for the '-a' switch. :) if you do a regular listing, you won't see any files/directories prefixed with a '.'. If you're using a GUI file browser those prefixed files/directories will not be displayed unless you enable the "show hidden files" option.