hide a file

[silvernetuk]

Hi,

How do I hide a file, from not been seen within SSH and FTP, however it must be able to be access be a script ?

Regards,
Garry

 

[dgbaker]

One way is to name the file with a . in the front of it.
For example

filename - > This is visible doing ls
.filename -> This is only visible doing ls -a