Commands using ls (517)
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-1find -type f | xargs ls -1tr
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This will show you the permissions on the directory you are currently in
-1ls -lad -
-1ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ /_/g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done
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-1ls | xargs -I{} du -sh {}
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Find all files larger than 500M in home directory and print them ordered by size with full info about each file. Show Sample Output
-1find ~ -type f -size +500M -exec ls -ls {} \; | sort -n -
-1ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r
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-1ls -1 | xargs ruby -e'puts ARGV.shuffle'
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-1find . \( -iname "*.doc" -o -iname "*.docx" \) -type f -exec ls -l --full-time {} +|sort -k 6,7
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for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
-1c=1; for i in *; do identify -verbose $i | perl -ane 'if(/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/){print "@F[1,2] "}'; ls -i $i; done | sort | perl -ane 'print "@F[2]\n"' | while read j; do find -inum $j | xargs -iX cp X NEW_`printf %02d $c`.jpg; cnt=`expr $c + 1`; done -
-1ls -a
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A simple way using a for loop
-2for i in $(ls /the/path); do du -hs /the/path/$i; done -
-2while [ 1 ]; do date; ls -l /path/to/dir; sleep 1; done
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An alias i made for myself to play music in a faster way. Works great when you have Guake / Tilda installed (Console that drops down like in the game QUAKE) --- I put this in my bash_alias file (I'm on ubuntu, the bash_alias file does autostart with the right config) but it works putting it in bashrc too. Or anything that autostarts when the console is opened. --- Needs Mplayer and music files to work. With out music theres nothing to play! Oh, and also, without modification, this alias will try to play stuff from your ~/Music folder! (case sensitive). Make sure that folder exists and has music OR edit this alias to fit your needs. Show Sample Output
-2alias mux='clear && cd ~/Music/ && ls && echo -n "File> " && read msi && mplayer ~/Music/$msi' -
Allows for quick mass renaming, assuming the user has some familiarity with regular expressions. Basically, it replaces the original_file_name in the output of ls with "mv -v original_file_name new_file_name" and passes the output to sh. Show Sample Output
-2ls /some/directory | sed -rn -e 's/input_file_regex/mv -v & output_file_name/p' | sh -
-2find / | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,4,9
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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.
-2ls -t | awk 'NR>5 {system("rm \"" $0 "\"")}' -
trying to copy all your dotfiles from one location to another, this may help Show Sample Output
-2ls -a | egrep "^\.\w" -
This is useful for paging through long directories, mulitple directories, etc. I put this in my ~/.bash_aliases file and alias 'lsl' to it.
-2function lsless() { ls "$@" | less; } -
Must have the video open and fully loaded.
-2video=$(ls /tmp | grep -e Flash\w*); ffmpeg -i /tmp/$video -f mp3 -ab 192k ~/ytaudio.mp3 -
For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.
-2for f in $(ls *.xml.skippy); do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done -
-2ls -F | sed -n 's/@$//p'
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If you gzip an empty file it becomes 20 bytes. Some backup checks i do check to see if the file is greater than zero size (-s flag) but this is no good here. Im sure someone has a better check than me for this? No check to see if file exists before checking it's size.
-2BACKUP_FILE_SIZE=`eval ls -l ${BACKUP_FILE} | awk {'print $5'}`; if [ $BACKUP_FILE_SIZE -le 20 ]; then echo "its empty"; else echo "its not empty"; fi -
Even though --color is an option for 'ls' it will not display in color when doing 'ls -lah --color=always | less' to have color output when doing a directory listing and piping it out to page through results, replace less with most. To install most if not installed, run: sudo apt-get install most
-2ls -lah --color=always | most -
-2ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/\(.*\):.*/\1/" | xargs gedit
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Compresses each file individually, creating a $fileneame.tar.gz and removes the uncompressed version, usefull if you have lots of files and don't want 1 huge archive containing them all. you could replace ls with ls *.pdf to just perform the action on pdfs for example.
-2ls | while read filename; do tar -czvf "$filename".tar.gz "$filename"; rm "$filename"; done - ‹ First < 15 16 17 18 19 > Last ›
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