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Replies for: Add "." in the prefix is how you hide a file on Linux. On Windows, it will use syscall SetFileAttributes to set a folder to "hidden".

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Hamza Anis • • Edited

In linux build

func isHidden(filename string) (bool, error) {
    if len(filepath.Base(filename)) > 0 && filepath.Base(filename)[0:1] == "." {
        return true, nil
    }

    return false, nil
}
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You are checking via

isHidden, err := hidden.IsHidden("./test", false)
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It will always end up panic because this file will be renamed to ./.test after hiding it and the above isHidden will never find the file.

For windows it should be working fine with the example in your package.