Alternatively,

but will break on directories containing newlines. Or the safe, POSIX sh way (but will miss dotfiles):

Normally, if you just want to see directories you'd use brianmuckian's command 'ls -d *\', but I ran into problems trying to use that command in my script because there are often multiple directories per line. If you need to script something with directories and want to guarantee that there is only one entry per line, this is the fastest way i know

Was playing with the shell. It struck to me, just by rearranging the parameters, i was able to remember what they did and in a cool way.

Enter the 'hitlar' mode.

bash-3.2$ ls -hitlar

Shows all items with inodes, in list view, human readable size, sorted by modification time in reverse,

bash-3.2$ ls -Fhitlar

Shows the same with classification info. Add the hitlar mode alias to your .bashrc.

bash-3.2$ echo "alias hitlar='ls -Fhitlar'" >> ~/.bashrc

bash-3.2$ hitlar

bash-3.2$ hitlar filename

... plus do a sort according frequency

A shorter version

Works on current directory, with built-in sorting.

Some source package have many 'README' kind of files, among many other regular files/directories. This command could be useful when one wants to list only 'README' kind of files among jungle of other files. (e.g. I came across this situation after downloading source for module-init-tools)

Warning: This command would miss a file like => README.1 (or one with spaces in-between)

Corrections welcome.

Opens the current working directory in the user's preferred application using freedesktop.org's xdg-open.

when working under a cli sometime you need to list the files with ls

but u can open gnome file browser with the command 'gnome-open .' under current directory

To monitor .vmdk files during snapshot deletion (commit) on ESX only (ESXi doesn't have the watch command):

1. Navigate to the VM directory containing .vmdk files.

# watch "ls -tough --full-time *.vmdk"

where:

-t sorts by modification time

-o do not list group information (to narrow the output)

-u sorts by access time

-g only here for the purpose to easily remember the created mnemonic word 'tough'

-h prints sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

--full-time sets the time style to full-iso and does not list user information (to narrow the output)

optionally useful parameters to the watch command:

-d highlight changes between updates

-n seconds to wait between updates (default is 2)

-t turn off printing the header

Great idea camocrazed. Another twist would be to display a different man page based on the day of the year. The following will continuously cycle through all man pages:

Tested and works on Linux.

Looks like you're stuck with sed if your ls doesn't have a -Q option.

If we want files with more than one extension, like .tar.gz, only appear the latest, .gz:

You may also use the $(which foo) variant instead of backticks. I personnaly have an alias ll='ls -l'.

Please be careful while executing the following command as you don?t want

to delete the files by mistake. The best practice is to execute the same

command with ls ?l to make sure you know which files will get deleted when

you execute the command with rm.

This shows every bit of information that stat can get for any file, dir, fifo, etc. It's great because it also shows the format and explains it for each format option.

If you just want stat help, create this handy alias 'stath' to display all format options with explanations.

To display on 2 lines:

For a similarly powerful stat-like function optimized for pretty output (and can sort by any field), check out the "lll" function

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5815/advanced-ls-output-using-find-for-formattedsortable-file-stat-info

From my .bash_profile ->

http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

I love this function because it tells me everything I want to know about files, more than stat, more than ls. It's very useful and infinitely expandable.

00761 drwxrw---x askapache:askapache 777:666 [06/10/10 | 06/10/10 | 06/10/10] [d] /web/cg/tmp

The key is:

# -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'

which believe it or not took me hundreds of tweaking before I was happy with the output.

You can easily use this within a function to do whatever you want.. This simple function works recursively if you call it with -r as an argument, and sorts by file permissions.

Personally I'm using this function because:

# i can sort by user

# or sort by group reversed

# and sort by modification time

If anyone wants to help me make this function handle multiple dirs/files like ls, go for it and I would appreciate it.. Something very minimal would be awesome.. maybe like:

Note this uses the latest version of GNU find built from source, easy to build from gnu ftp tarball. Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

Here's a version that doesn't use find.