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Terminal - Commands using ls - 456 results
ls -d .*
2009-11-23 15:58:52
User: yooreck
Functions: ls
Tags: egrep ls dotfiles
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Find all dot files and directories
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ls -l | awk '$5 > 1000000' | sort -k5n
2009-11-20 21:18:45
User: cfajohnson
Functions: awk ls sort
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Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir
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for f in $(ls *.xml.skippy); do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done
2009-11-19 21:36:26
User: argherna
Functions: ls mv sed
Tags: sed ls mv for
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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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video=$(ls /tmp | grep -e Flash\w*); ffmpeg -i /tmp/$video -f mp3 -ab 192k ~/ytaudio.mp3
2009-11-19 09:25:10
User: aperson
Functions: grep ls
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Script to rip the audio from the youtube video you have open in firefox

Must have the video open and fully loaded.

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function lsless() { ls "$@" | less; }
2009-11-13 17:28:06
User: argherna
Functions: ls
Tags: less ls function
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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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slice(){ cut -c$((${#1}+1))-; }; ls -l | slice "-rw-r--r--"
2009-11-12 22:50:21
User: sputnick
Functions: cut ls
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slice a fixed number of characters from the output of a command, where the width of the slice is the number of characters in $slice
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slice="-rw-r--r-- "; ls -l | cut -c $(echo "$slice" | wc -c)-
2009-11-12 22:24:31
User: bartonski
Functions: cut echo ls wc
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slice a fixed number of characters from the output of a command, where the width of the slice is the number of characters in $slice
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ls -al
2009-11-12 12:27:32
User: eastwind
Functions: ls
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show the last modified date on directory and file

it does provide much more information , the owner , group , the size in byte , and the last modified time a file or directory was

ls -al : list all in long format

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ls -a | egrep "^\.\w"
2009-11-11 18:19:56
User: kulor
Functions: egrep ls
Tags: egrep ls dotfiles
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Find all dot files and directories

trying to copy all your dotfiles from one location to another, this may help

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ls -1rSA | tail
2009-10-27 15:34:59
User: rbossy
Functions: ls
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Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry

This will only work on files since ls won't tell the size of a directory contents.

Note that the first switch is the digit one, not the letter ell.

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pushd .> /dev/null; cd /; for d in `echo $OLDPWD | sed -e 's/\// /g'`; do cd $d; echo -n "$d "; ls -ld .; done; popd >/dev/null
2009-10-22 12:32:11
User: syladmin
Functions: cd echo ls sed
Tags: permissions
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Show current folder permission recursively from /, useful for debugging ssh key permission

Can easily be scripted in order to show permission "tree" from any folder. Can also be formated with

column -t

{ pushd .> /dev/null; cd /; for d in `echo $OLDPWD | sed -e 's/\// /g'`; do cd $d; echo -n "$d "; ls -ld .; done; popd >/dev/null ; } | column -t

from http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3731/using-column-to-format-a-directory-listing

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ls | xargs -n1 gzip
2009-10-15 03:10:38
User: haplo
Functions: ls xargs
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GZip all files in a directory separately
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a=($(ls *html)) && a=${a[$(expr ${#a[@]} - 1)]} && rm $a
2009-10-12 16:40:06
User: linuxrawkstar
Functions: expr ls rm
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remove the last of all html files in a directory

plays with bash arrays. instead of storing the list of files in a temp file, this stores the list in ram, retrieves the last element in the array (the last html file), then removes it.

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ls -d */
2009-10-08 22:07:22
User: brianmuckian
Functions: ls
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List only the directories

-d: list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference symbolic links

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ls -F|grep /
2009-10-08 16:35:15
User: romulusnr
Functions: grep ls
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List only the directories

No need for -l and the output can be sent directly into another function expecting directory names.

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(printf "PERMISSIONS LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM PROG-NAME\n" \ ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
2009-10-08 11:53:38
User: opexxx
Functions: column ls printf sed
Tags: sed ls column printf
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Using column to format a directory listing

Using column to format a directory listing

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ls -alh #mycomment
2009-10-06 13:55:06
User: servermanaged
Functions: ls
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Insert a comment on command line for reminder

Comments can be used directly on the command line so I can save in the history a brief description of what command does.

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ls [FILENAME] | xargs openssl sha1
2009-10-03 02:05:43
User: m00dimus
Functions: ls xargs
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Generate SHA1 hash for each file in a list

List files and pass to openssl to calculate the hash for each file.

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ls -A
2009-09-29 15:22:04
User: linuxrawkstar
Functions: ls
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List dot-files and dirs, but not . or ..
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ls .??*
2009-09-29 14:40:37
User: Paula
Functions: ls
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List dot-files and dirs, but not . or ..

Works 99.9% of the time; so far never required a more complex expression in manual input.

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ls .[!.]*
2009-09-29 13:50:13
User: danam
Functions: ls
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List dot-files and dirs, but not "." and ".."

Although rm is protected against it, there are many commands that would wreak havoc on entering the obvious ".*" to address "dot-files". This sweet little expression excludes the dirs "." and ".." that cause the problems.

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enscript jrandom.txt -o - | ps2pdf - ~/tmp/jrandom.pdf (from file) or: ls | enscript -o - | ps2pdf - ~/tmp/ls.pdf (from stdout)
2009-09-27 15:15:16
User: bartonski
Functions: ls
Tags: pdf postscript enscript
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create pdf files from text files or stdout.
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tar -cvf /dev/null . | while read i; do ls -l $i; done
2009-09-16 16:59:15
User: lbonanomi
Functions: ls read tar
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ls -lR with a full path

I find the ouput of ls -lR to be un-satisfying (why is the path data up there?) and find syntax to be awkward. Running 'du -a' means you will have likely to trim-off filesize data before feeding filenames to the next step in the pipe.

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ls -lt|grep ^-|awk 'NR>5 { print $8 }'|xargs -r rm
2009-09-16 07:43:03
User: karel1980
Functions: awk grep ls xargs
Tags: ls
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Delete all but the latest 5 files, ignoring directories
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ls -t | tail +6 | xargs rm
2009-09-16 06:33:07
User: negyvenot
Functions: ls tail xargs
Tags: ls
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Delete all but the latest 5 files

yes 6 (tail from 6th line)

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