How do I manually create a file with a dot prefix in Windows For example htaccess

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I want to create a  htaccess file manually and discovered it seems impossible through the Windows UI  I get a  you must type a filename   message  There has to be a way to create files with   as a prefix in Windows   Can this be done manually

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If you use Git and have Git Bash installed you can open a Git Bash at the directory  via Right Click in the white space in Explorer   Git Bash Here  and do   touch  htaccess

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If you start Notepad and then File -  Save As -  Write  htaccess and choose  All Files  as the type - then it will create the  htaccess file for you

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Go to command prompt  cd to the appropriate folder and type   notepad  htaccess   After confirmation dialog the file will be created and you will be editing it directly  If you just want to create an empty file  try  echo   gt   htaccess

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In Windows  just go to the folder using cmd and type the following command   DIR gt  htaccess   This command will create a  htaccess file and will dump some data in it   Remove the data  and it can be used as  htaccess file

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Within Notepad select File   Save As     File name    whatever you want   with the leading dot   You can do it in Explorer  in Windows 7  by adding a period at the end of the filename     whatever you want   Windows will automatically remove the trailing dot when you validate

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Even if you don t have any third party editor  Notepad   etc   then also you can create files with dot as prefix   To create  htaccess file  first create htaccess txt file with Context Menu  gt  New Text Document   Then press Alt   D  Windows 7  and Ctrl   C to copy the path from the Address bar of Windows Explorer   Then go to command line and type code as below to rename your file   rename C  path to htaccess txt  htaccess   Now you have a blank  htaccess without opening it in any editor   Hope this helps you out

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Windows 7  8  amp  10 This is dead easy since Windows 7  In File Explorer  right click anywhere and create a new file  Type the new filename as  something   notice the appended period  and press enter twice  job done   So instead of being prompted with  You must type a file name   You will instead be prompted with  If you change a file name extension  the file might become unusable   Note  If you re having issues then please ensure you have  quot file name extensions quot  visible  you can activate this under the  quot View quot  menu in File Explorer  Also  this method works for folders too

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You can save it using the Save As dialog using   something

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Just type  htaccess  as filename   Notice the dot at the end of htaccess   This will change in Windows to  htaccess without a dot at the end

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As an addition  if have Sublime Text installed in your development computer  you can drag the file to your opened Sublime Text window  right click the filename -  rename and enter whatever name even without any extension  This worked for me

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You could also use Command Prompt with move  move x extension  extension

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Use something like Notepad    or even Notepad    Save As   and enter the name  htaccess that way  I always found it weird  but it lets you do it from a program

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You can do this in any program other than Explorer  e g  Notepad  cmd exe etc   You just can t do it in Explorer  and Raymond Chen has offered an explanation as to why not

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It seems that Microsoft finally is addressing this problem  Current versions in the Insider Editions of Explorer allows creating files with a dot at the front   Tested with Build 19541

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Might sound unbelivable  but Windows 1903 finally allows to name files in Explorer with a leading dot  -

[windows] How do I manually create a file with a . (dot) prefix in Windows? For example, .htaccess

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