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List directory sorted by last modified date. Tail of it.

alias lst="ls -ls -tr | tail" Show Sample Output

ls -ls -tr | tail

KopBoB · 2013-12-11 09:46:30 7

find svn uncommitted files and list their properties

The AWK part of the code will "collate" the fields from 2nd to Nth field (this is to handle any svn directories that may have spaces in them - typical when working with code that is interchangeably used with windows environment - for example, documentation teams) - the output is passed to "ls -ld" - the -d option to ls will tell ls to handle directories itself, rather than do ls on the directory. The '-p' option is just for pretty printing directories, links and executables (for added readability). Finally, the entire "constructed" command will be passed onto sh for shell execution. Show Sample Output

svn status | awk -F" " '{ for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) print "ls -ld \""$i"\""}' | sh

kln0thing · 2014-07-09 09:41:24 14

Delete files sorted by dates. Delete all other files except latest N files.
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ls -lt | grep ^- | awk 'NR>=N {print $9}' | xargs rm -rf -i

clongbupt · 2015-02-10 06:29:24 8
Long listing of the files.

Some Unix systems have this by default. Check if you need to add it on yours. Show Sample Output
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```
-rw-r--r--  1 kenorb 1.7K Aug 19 22:20 INSTALL.mysql.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 kenorb 1.9K Aug 19 22:20 INSTALL.pgsql.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 kenorb 1.3K Aug 19 22:20 INSTALL.sqlite.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 kenorb  18K Aug 19 22:20 INSTALL.txt
```
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alias ll='ls -la'

kenorb · 2015-10-09 16:19:10 13
Finding all files on local file system with SUID and SGID set
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find / $ -mount -o -prune $ $ -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 $ -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

AlmightyOatmeal · 2015-12-17 17:28:48 10

Returns the N most recently modified files from anywhere 'below' (and including) the current working directory, in order, with details.

Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output

nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; }

incidentnormal · 2016-03-04 14:53:14 12

display colored list items in less pager

I've shortened it to: lsc PATH | l ... by adding ... alias lsc="ls --color" ... and ... alias l="less -R" ... to my ~/.bashrc file
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ls --color PATH | less -R

kevjonesin · 2016-03-07 13:46:02 13
Nicer ls, directories first and colorized (MacOS)

It will print a compact ls -la list with the directories at the beginning. --almost-all - do not list implied . and .. --group-directories-first - group directories before files --color - colorize the output --no-group - in a long listing, don't print group names --human-readable - print human readable sizes (e.g., 1K 234M 2G) --classify - append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries If you want to see the owner: ls -l --almost-all --group-directories-first --color --no-group --human-readable --classify Show Sample Output
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```
total 76K
drwxr-xr-x 15  510 Apr 15 18:04 .git/
drwxr-xr-x  3  102 Apr 13 16:56 ftdetect/
drwxr-xr-x  3  102 Apr 13 16:56 ftplugin/
drwxr-xr-x  3  102 Apr 13 16:56 indent/
drwxr-xr-x  3  102 Apr 13 16:56 snippets/
drwxr-xr-x  3  102 Apr 13 16:56 syntax/
-rw-r--r--  1   12 Apr 13 16:56 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 1.1K Apr 13 16:56 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1  409 Apr 13 16:56 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 1.0K Apr 13 16:56 README.md
-rw-r--r--  1  57K Apr 13 16:56 vim-dockerfile-example.png
```
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ls -g --almost-all --group-directories-first --color --no-group --human-readable --classify

icatalina · 2016-04-15 17:12:35 13
Display "ls -l" output with color in less
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ls -l --color | less -R

Sparkette · 2016-05-07 17:19:56 11
See how many times you've typed 'ls' by itself

I seem to do this compulsively every time I change directories, sometimes even when I don't, even if I know exactly what I need to do. (Don't worry, the sample output is just an exaggeration. :) Show Sample Output
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```
23934729
```
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grep -cx ls ~/.bash_history

Sparkette · 2016-09-14 17:06:59 17
List files that DO NOT match a pattern
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ls | grep -vi pattern

haivu · 2009-11-24 20:39:53 5
List files that DO NOT match a pattern

There's no need for ls or grep; printf is builtin to most modern shells
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printf "%s\n" !(pattern) ## ksh, or bash with shopt -s extglob

cfajohnson · 2009-11-26 14:09:56 3
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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gnome-open .

pahnin · 2010-10-01 13:16:00 9
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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xdg-open .

schlaegel · 2010-10-05 04:20:31 6
Delete files and directories from current directory exept those specified
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rm -R `ls | egrep -v 'dir1|dir2|file1'`

killman · 2011-08-07 08:34:17 3
Find files and list them sorted by modification time
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find -type f | xargs ls -1tr

unixmonkey50727 · 2013-03-20 16:43:54 4
Find out the permissions of the current directory

This will show you the permissions on the directory you are currently in
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ls -lad

techie · 2013-04-03 09:58:31 6

exa

nothing fancy `ls` alternative `exa`, with most info printed and passed through less with the `-R` (raw) option, to preserve colour output https://github.com/ogham/exa You can add or remove `-@` to print extended attributes for files that have them. Show Sample Output

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exa -glhrSuU -s size --group-directories-first -@ | less -R

wires · 2016-02-27 17:19:43 48

Add some color to ls

If you put this in your .bashrc, you might also want to add this to make it use the colors by default: alias ls="ls --color=auto"
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eval "`dircolors -b`"

isaacs · 2009-03-27 05:37:04 6
Delete all but the latest 5 files

I have a directory containing log files. This command delete all but the 5 latest logs. Here is how it works: * The ls -t command list all files with the latest ones at the top * The awk's expression means: for those lines greater than 5, delete.
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ls -t | awk 'NR>5 {system("rm \"" $0 "\"")}'

haivu · 2009-09-16 04:58:08 4
Find all dot files and directories

trying to copy all your dotfiles from one location to another, this may help Show Sample Output
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```
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.ssh
```
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ls -a | egrep "^\.\w"

kulor · 2009-11-11 18:19:56 12
Pipe ls output into less

This is useful for paging through long directories, mulitple directories, etc. I put this in my ~/.bash_aliases file and alias 'lsl' to it.
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function lsless() { ls "$@" | less; }

argherna · 2009-11-13 17:28:06 7
Remove an unnecessary suffix from a file name for all files in a directory

For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.
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for f in $(ls *.xml.skippy); do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done

argherna · 2009-11-19 21:36:26 20
Find files and list them sorted by modification time

Here's a version that doesn't use find.
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ls -rl --time-style=+%s * | sed '/^$/,/^total [0-9]*$/d' | sort -nk6

putnamhill · 2010-05-27 19:14:12 4
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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man $(ls /bin | sed -n $((RANDOM % $(ls /bin | wc -l) + 1))p)

putnamhill · 2010-08-20 17:15:33 5
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Create a tar archive with all files of a certain type found in present dir and subdirs

Note: the tar archive must not exist in order to create it. If exists it will only be updated and no already existent files in present search will still remain in the tar archive. The update option has to be used instead of create because the command tar may be executed more than once depending on the number of arguments that find throws. You can see maximum number of arguments with 'getconf ARG_MAX'

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Find non ascii characters in files in folder

Every Nth line position # (SED)

sed extract every nth line. Generic is: $ sed -n 'STARTPOSITION,${p;n;*LINE}' foo where n;*LINE = how many lines. thus p;n;n; is "for every 3 lines" and p;n;n;n;n; is "for every 5 lines"

Url Encode

Converts reserved characters in a URI to their percent encoded counterparts. Alternate python version: $ echo "$url" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip())'

Uniformly correct filenames in a directory

Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').

Show top SVN committers for the last month

Make vim open in tabs by default (save to .profile)

I always add this to my .profile rc so I can do things like: "vim *.c" and the files are opened in tabs.

Check if you need to run LaTeX to update the TOC

To check if the table-of-content in a LaTeX document is up-to-date, copy it to a backup before running LaTeX and compare the new .toc to the backup. If they are identical, it is updated. If not, you need to run LaTeX again.

ignore .DS_Store forever in GIT

With a couple of little commands, you?ll be able to ignore the .DS_Store files forever from your git repositories on mac! The following command will add the .gitignore file to the git configuration git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore then, the following, will add the .DS_Store to the list echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

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