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Like on windows? There doesn't seem to be an option for this? Is this possible? it's annoying looking at the .xxx all the time.

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    @JacobVlijm Windows Explorer (the default file manager for Windows) used to hide the file extenstion (the 3 characters following the [.], in XP and Windows 7 by default. I don't know about 8 and later. Those who are from that world got used to seeing file names without the extension. – user68186 Jan 30 '15 at 20:39

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In nautilus you can not hide a certain file extension.

File extensions can be deceiving!

But I wrote a for loop in shell for you:

for file in *.xxx; do mv $file .${file%%}; done

This will hide all files with .xxx extension in your current working directory.

mertyildiran
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A simple way to use a "." as the first symbol of the name. Or you can put the file inside a folder and rename the folder by having a "." as the first symbol of the folder's name. Examples: .hidden .folder .hiddenfolder .file .title

Automatically, the folders/files will be hidden. Then, when you want to see the hidden items again, you'll have to press Ctrl + h on your keyboard every time you want to see whatever's hidden.

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