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Terminal - Commands tagged ls - 105 results
ls -lFart |tail -n1
2011-10-17 19:49:14
User: jambino
Functions: ls tail
Tags: tail pipe ls
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Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

List all files in a directory in reverse order by modified timestamp. When piped through tail the user will see the most recent file name.

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lsr() { find "${@:-.}" -print0 |sort -z |xargs -0 ls $LS_OPTIONS -dla; }
2011-08-15 03:10:58
User: h3xx
Functions: find ls sort xargs
Tags: sort find ls xargs function list
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Sorted, recursive long file listing

Tells you everything you could ever want to know about all files and subdirectories. Great for package creators. Totally secure too.

On my Slackware box, this gets set upon login:

LS_OPTIONS='-F -b -T 0 --color=auto'

and

alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

which works great.

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ls -l | grep ^d | sed 's:.*\ ::g'
2011-08-08 12:36:28
User: bormarek
Functions: grep ls sed
Tags: bash sed ls grep
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List only directories, one per line

nothing special

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rm -R `ls | egrep -v 'dir1|dir2|file1'`
2011-08-07 08:34:17
User: killman
Functions: egrep rm
Tags: exclude ls rm
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Delete files and directories from current directory exept those specified
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find * -type d -maxdepth 0
2011-08-07 06:04:50
User: edogawaconan
Functions: find
Tags: find ls grep sh
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List only directories, one per line

Alternatively,

ls -F | grep /\$

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

for i in *; do test -d "./$i" && printf "%s\n" "$i"; done
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ls -1d */
2011-08-07 05:10:12
User: Avenger
Functions: ls
Tags: bash ls
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List only directories, one per line
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ls -l | grep ^d | sed 's:.*\ ::g'
2011-08-06 23:52:46
User: LinuxMan
Functions: grep ls sed
Tags: bash sed ls grep
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List only directories, one per line

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

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ls -Fhitlar
2011-07-11 10:29:34
User: ringzero
Functions: ls
Tags: ls
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list files in 'hitlar' mode

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

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ls -alt /directory/ | awk '{ print $6 " " $7 " -- " $9 }'
2011-02-17 12:50:38
User: gamefiend
Functions: awk ls
Tags: awk pipe ls
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Print last modified time in 'date -- file' format
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find . -type f | awk -F'.' '{print $NF}' | sort| uniq -c | sort -g
2011-02-14 09:15:29
User: cp
Functions: awk find sort uniq
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

... plus do a sort according frequency

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ls | grep -Eo "\..+" | sort -u
2011-02-14 04:52:43
User: berr
Functions: grep ls sort
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

A shorter version

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ls -Xp | grep -Eo "\.[^/]+$" | sort | uniq
2011-02-10 20:47:59
User: Amarok
Functions: grep ls sort
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

Works on current directory, with built-in sorting.

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ls | grep '^[A-Z0-9]*$'
2010-12-19 21:45:53
User: b_t
Functions: grep ls
Tags: upcase, uppercase, ls grep regex
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List only those files that has all uppercase letters in their names (e.g. README)

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.

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xdg-open .
2010-10-05 04:20:31
User: schlaegel
Tags: ls xdg-open gnome-open .
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bored of listing files with ls wanna see them in file browser in gnome try this

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

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gnome-open .
2010-10-01 13:16:00
User: pahnin
Tags: ls gnome-open .
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bored of listing files with ls wanna see them in file browser in gnome try this

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

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ls -l $HOME
2010-09-12 10:56:13
User: lineak
Functions: ls
Tags: ls
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To list all files in your home directory
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ls -l ~
2010-09-12 10:55:00
User: lineak
Functions: ls
Tags: ls
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To list all files in your home directory
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watch 'ls -tough --full-time *.vmdk'
2010-08-20 17:28:28
User: vRobM
Functions: watch
Tags: ls watch vmware esx snapshots vmdk
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watch snapshots commit in VMware ESX

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

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man $(ls /bin | sed -n $((RANDOM % $(ls /bin | wc -l) + 1))p)
2010-08-20 17:15:33
User: putnamhill
Functions: ls man sed wc
Tags: man sed ls wc random
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Display a random man page

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:

man $(ls /bin | sed -n $(($(date +%j) % $(ls /bin | wc -l)))p)
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ls --quoting-style={escape,shell,c}
2010-08-17 16:50:38
User: stubby
Functions: ls
Tags: ls
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List files by quoting or escaping special characters.

Tested and works on Linux.

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ls | sed 's/.*/"&"/'
2010-08-17 15:38:51
User: putnamhill
Functions: ls sed
Tags: sed ls
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List files with quotes around each filename

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

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ls -Xp /path/to/dir | grep -Eo "\.[^/]+$" | uniq
2010-08-12 16:32:54
User: karpoke
Functions: grep ls
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

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

ls -Xp /path/to/dir | grep -Eo "\.[^./]+$" | uniq
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ls -l `which foo`
2010-07-09 01:34:02
User: adeverteuil
Functions: ls
Tags: which ls link executable
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Tells you where a command is in your $PATH, but also wether it's a link and to what.

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

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find / -type f -name *.tar.gz -size +10M -exec ls -l {} \;
2010-06-29 12:39:02
User: 0disse0
Functions: find ls
Tags: find ls exec rm type
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How to delete all the archive files with extension *.tar.gz and greater than 10MB?

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.

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statt(){ C=c;stat --h|sed '/Th/,/NO/!d;/%/!d'|while read l;do p=${l/% */};[ $p == %Z ]&&C=fc&&echo ^FS:^;echo "`stat -$C $p \"$1\"` ^$p^${l#%* }";done|column -ts^; }
2010-06-11 23:31:03
User: AskApache
Functions: column read sed
Tags: bash sed ls file column read while loop function GNU/Linux stat askapache sh
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STAT Function showing ALL info, stat options, and descriptions

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.

alias stath="stat --h|sed '/Th/,/NO/!d;/%/!d'"

To display on 2 lines:

( F=/etc/screenrc N=c IFS=$'\n'; for L in $(sed 's/%Z./%Z\n/'<<<`stat --h|sed -n '/^ *%/s/^ *%\(.\).*$/\1:%\1/p'`); do G=$(echo "stat -$N '$L' \"$F\""); eval $G; N=fc;done; )

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

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