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List a phone's filesystem with bitpim

This will list your phone's filesystem with bitpim. (works on many LG, Samsung, and Sanyo) See http://www.bitpim.org/help/phones-featuressupported.htm for full list.
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bitpim -p $PHONE_PORT ls

matthewbauer · 2010-04-09 02:20:53 10
Print time and year of file in Solaris (or other Unix ls command that does not have a simple "--full-list")

Solaris 'ls' command does not have a nice '--full-time' arg to make the time show after a year has passed. So I spit this out quick. It hates spaces in file names. Show Sample Output
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```
Test_DR.sh = Mon Jul  6 09:22:35 2009
Test_DR.sh-20080806-hck = Sun Aug 17 13:46:34 2008
Test_DR.sh~ = Sun Aug 17 13:49:59 2008
utk_cod-savesets = Wed Mar 14 11:20:46 2007
utkdc8 = Fri Nov  3 17:18:21 2006
Vics-data = Thu Jan 21 14:30:29 2010
```
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perl -e '@F = `ls -1`;while (<@F>){@T = stat($_);print "$_ = " . localtime($T[8]) . "\n";}'

hckhckhck · 2010-05-20 15:02:51 5
Print time and year of file in Solaris (or other Unix ls command that does not have a simple
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perl -e 'foreach (@ARGV) {@T=stat($_); print localtime($T[8])." - ".$_."\n"}'

putnamhill · 2010-05-20 16:19:17 4
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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find / -type f -name *.tar.gz -size +10M -exec ls -l {} \;

0disse0 · 2010-06-29 12:39:02 5
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 "\.[^./]+$" | uniq Show Sample Output
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```
.tar.gz
.py
.pyc
```
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ls -Xp /path/to/dir | grep -Eo "\.[^/]+$" | uniq

karpoke · 2010-08-12 16:32:54 6
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. Show Sample Output
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```
7FILESTARTWITHNUMBER
AUTHORS
CODING
COPYING
FAQ
INSTALL
MYTEST1
NEWS
NUM2INBETWEEN
README
TODO
```
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ls | grep '^[A-Z0-9]*$'

b_t · 2010-12-19 21:45:53 4
List only directories, one per line

nothing special Show Sample Output
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```
[root@arch ~]# ls -l | grep ^d | awk '{print $8}'
Desktop
public_html
script
```
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ls -l | grep ^d | sed 's:.*\ ::g'

bormarek · 2011-08-08 12:36:28 3
delete the files from the given directory except the PDF file
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ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf

karuppasamy · 2011-11-02 04:42:32 3
Mark a directory as one where something failed

If you use colored ls(1), the broken symbolic links significantly differ from regular files and directories in the ls listing. In my case it is bright red. 0 is for getting the first place in the list.
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fail () { ln -s /nonexistent 0_FAIL_${1}; }

pipeliner · 2011-11-06 20:14:33 3
Get the dir listing of an executable without knowing its location

this is the much easier zsh equivalent ...
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ls -l =gcc

Seebi · 2011-11-15 08:06:25 4
Get the dir listing of an executable without knowing its location

whereis (1) - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command Not actually better, just expanded a bit. The "whereis" command has the following output: whereis gcc gcc: /usr/bin/gcc /usr/lib/gcc /usr/bin/X11/gcc /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz therefore the 'ls' error on first line, which could be eliminated with a little extra work. Show Sample Output
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```
ls: cannot access gcc:: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2011-03-03 00:31 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2011-03-03 00:31 /usr/bin/X11/gcc -> gcc-4.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   12 2011-03-03 00:31 /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz -> gcc-4.5.1.gz

/usr/lib/gcc:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-02-14 18:01 i586-suse-linux
```
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ls -l `whereis gcc`

knathan54 · 2011-11-15 19:45:08 4
Find files with size over 100MB and output with better lay-out

This command does a basic find with size. It also improves the printout given (more clearer then default) Adjusting the ./ will alter the path. Adjusting the "-size +100000k" will specify the size to search for. Show Sample Output
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```
goez@goez-laptop:~/test$ ls -sh
total 392M
102M 101MB_file  201M 200MB_file   91M 90MB_file
goez@goez-laptop:~/test$ find ./ -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2>/dev/null| awk '{ print $8 " : " $5}'
./101MB_file : 101M
./200MB_file : 200M
```
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find ./ -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2>/dev/null| awk '{ print $8 " : " $5}'

Goez · 2012-01-21 04:19:35 5
Quick and dirty recursive directory comparison

Compare the ls -Rl output of two directories in meld (you can also use diff -y instead of meld).
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ls -Rl dir1/ > /tmp/dir1.ls; ls -Rl dir2/ > /tmp/dir2.ls; meld /tmp/dir1.ls /tmp/dir2.ls

joeseggiola · 2012-03-04 13:06:55 3
list unique file extensions recursively for a path, include extension frequency stats

the find -printf "%f\n" prints just the file name from the given path. This means directory paths which contain extensions will not be considered. Show Sample Output
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```
.m3u
.M3U
.m4a
.m4v
.mp3
.Mp3
.MP3
```
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find /some/path -type f -and -printf "%f\n" | egrep -io '\.[^.]*$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

kyle0r · 2012-04-02 19:25:35 3
Graphical tree of sub-directories

shorter version. I believe find is faster than ls as well.
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find . -type d |sed 's:[^-][^/]*/:--:g; s:^-: |:'

adamhotep · 2012-04-14 00:51:09 5

List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

for those without the tree command. Show Sample Output

find . -ls | sort -k 7 -n

silicontrip · 2012-05-14 22:35:47 4

List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

This doesn't require any non-standard programs.
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find . -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -n

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-17 11:39:26 3
Simulate a tree command
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ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'

Koobiac · 2012-05-30 14:50:13 3
Find removed files still in use via /proc

Accidentally deleted some file while used by a program ? (Eg: a song) Use this command to find the file handle and recover using cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/recoverd-file.ext Show Sample Output
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```
to@tolaptop:~$ ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep 'deleted'| grep "\/proc.*\.mp3"

lr-x------ 1 totti root 64 2012-09-13 14:24 /proc/3275/fd/27 -> /home/to/Downloads/07. AAA.mp3.part (deleted)
```
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ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep 'deleted'| grep "\/proc.*\file-name-part"

totti · 2012-09-13 09:54:16 5
ls sort by human readable size (redhat)
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ls -lSr

unixmonkey44306 · 2012-12-14 14:39:00 4
Order all files oldest to newest then get the last one touched

On the Mac, the 'ls' function can sort based on month/day/time, but seems to lack ability to filter on the Year field (#9 among the long listed fields). The sorted list continuously increases the 'START' year for the most recently accessed set of files. The final month printed will be the highest month that appeared in that START year. The command does its magic on the current directory, and suitably discards all entries that are themselves directories. If you expect files dating prior to 2002, change the START year accordingly.
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ls -lT -rt | grep "^-" | awk 'BEGIN {START=2002} (START <= $9){ print $10 ;START=$9 }' | tail -1

Glamdring · 2013-02-24 23:39:22 7
Clear the screen and list file

Clear the screen and list file
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alias cls='clear;ls'

opexxx · 2013-03-19 12:18:47 12
show 20 last modified files in current directory including subdirectories

zsh globbing and glob qualifier: '**/*' = recursive om = ouput by modification (last access) [1,20] = twenty files. The '-t' switch is provided to ls so that the files are ordered with the most recent at the top. For a more 'find' like output the following can be used. print -rl **/*(om[1,20])
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ls -tl **/*(om[1,20])

khayyam · 2013-03-24 00:14:03 4
List all symbolic links in current directory

I use this with alias: alias lsl="ls -1F | grep @ | sed 's/@//' | column"
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$ ls -1F | grep @ | sed 's/@//' | column

jlbknr · 2013-07-19 17:41:03 7
List all symbolic links in current directory

I use this with alias: alias lsl="ls -1F | grep @$ | sed 's/@//' | column" Limitation: This will also list files that happen to have an @ at the end of the filename.
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ls -1F | grep @$ | sed 's/@//' | column

jlbknr · 2013-07-19 17:55:11 5
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ls -hog --> a more compact ls -l

I often deal with long file names and the 'ls -l' command leaves very little room for file names. An alternative is to use the -h -o and -g flags (or together, -hog). * The -h flag produces human-readable file size (e.g. 91K instead of 92728) * The -o suppresses the owner column * The -g suppresses the group column Since I use to alias ll='ls -l', I now do alias ll='ls -hog'

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Take a screenshot of the window the user clicks on and name the file the same as the window title

In general, this is actually not better than the "scrot -d4" command I'm listing it as an alternative to, so please don't vote it down for that. I'm adding this command because xwd (X window dumper) comes with X11, so it is already installed on your machine, whereas scrot probably is not. I've found xwd handy on boxen that I don't want to (or am not allowed to) install packages on. NOTE: The dd junk for renaming the file is completely optional. I just did that for fun and because it's interesting that xwd embeds the window title in its metadata. I probably should have just parsed the output from file(1) instead of cutting it out with dd(1), but this was more fun and less error prone. NOTE2: Many programs don't know what to do with an xwd format image file. You can convert it to something normal using NetPBM's xwdtopnm(1) or ImageMagick's convert(1). For example, this would work: "xwd | convert fd:0 foo.jpg". Of course, if you have ImageMagick already installed, you'd probably use import(1) instead of xwd. NOTE3: Xwd files can be viewed using the X Window UnDumper: "xwud <foo.xwd". ImageMagick and The GIMP can also read .xwd files. Strangely, eog(1) cannot. NOTE4: The sleep is not strictly necessary, I put it in there so that one has time to raise the window above any others before clicking on it.

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 the .svn directory in filename completion

When browsing java source code (for example) it's really annoying having to type the first letter of the package when there is only one package in the subdir. man bash for more info about FIGNORE

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