Quick .dir question

JaY_III

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• Mar 12, 2014

• #1

Anyone know how I can un-hide a dir that starts with a "."

I am in the process of moving my file server over to a linux based solution and two of my CD's are giving me some grief.

...And the Circus Leaves Town
...An Education In Rebellion

Any way I can un-hide them without removing the dots at the start of the album name?

 

Stratus_ss

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• Mar 12, 2014

• #2

In nautilus its just "ctrl + h". On the command line you simply use "ls -a"

 

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pcgamer4life

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• Mar 12, 2014

• #3

Without removing the '.', I don't think there's a way to unhide it. What do you need the directory to be visible to? If you just need to see it, you can use the '-a' option with ls. If you're using something like Ubuntu, there's probably a way to make the GUI show hidden files.

Otherwise, just 'mv .XXX xxx'

 

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JaY_III

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• Mar 12, 2014

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On the command line I am good. Sorry for the lack of clarification.

Its when my wife is looking from Windows or my OpenELEC XBMC system is looking I was concerned about.
Really trying to avoid the rename. As that is not the name of the album.
But you sometimes have to work with the limitations of the system i guess.

 

cullam3n

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• Mar 12, 2014

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JaY_III said:

On the command line I am good. Sorry for the lack of clarification.

Its when my wife is looking from Windows or my OpenELEC XBMC system is looking I was concerned about.
Really trying to avoid the rename. As that is not the name of the album.
But you sometimes have to work with the limitations of the system i guess.

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With XBMC

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Settings/Appearance

Settings > Appearance > File lists > Show hidden files and directories

If you want to rename a batch number of files, you can use something like Quick Anime Renamer and do a find and replace for "." to "".

 

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JaY_III

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• Mar 14, 2014

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Thanks guys, but i think i am just going to rename the dir.