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Terminal - Commands using ls - 442 results

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.

(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

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.

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.

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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ls -t | awk 'NR>5 {system("rm \"" $0 "\"")}'

2009-09-16 04:58:08

User: haivu

Functions: awk ls

Tags: awk ls

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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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cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list > /tmp/listin ; ls /proc/*/exe |xargs -l readlink | grep -xvFf /tmp/listin; rm /tmp/listin

2009-09-09 18:09:14

User: kamathln

Functions: cat grep ls readlink rm xargs

Tags: Debian find dpkg

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Find running binary executables that were not installed using dpkg

This helped me find a botnet that had made into my system. Of course, this is not a foolproof or guarantied way to find all of them or even most of them. But it helped me find it.

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ls -ldct /lost+found |awk '{print $6, $7}'

2009-09-08 06:16:04

User: realist

Functions: awk ls

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When was your OS installed?

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ls -lct /etc/ | tail -1 | awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'

2009-09-04 16:52:50

User: peshay

Functions: awk ls tail

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When was your OS installed?

shows also time if its the same year or shows year if installed before actual year and also works if /etc is a link (mac os)

ls -lct /etc | tail -1 | awk '{print $6, $7}'

2009-09-03 10:26:37

User: MrMerry

Functions: awk ls tail

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When was your OS installed?

Show time and date when you installed your OS.

ls -shF --color

2009-09-03 05:45:33

User: Viperlin

Functions: ls

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Ultimate current directory usage command

use manpages, they give you "ultimate commands"

"ls -SshF --color" list by filesize (biggest at the top)

"ls -SshFr --color" list by filesize in reverse order (biggest at the bottom)

ls *.c | while read F; do gcc -Wall -o `echo $F | cut -d . -f 1 - ` $F; done

2009-08-28 13:01:56

User: pichinep

Functions: cut gcc ls read

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Compile all C files in a directory

Compile *.c files with "gcc -Wall" in actual directory, using as output file the file name without extension.

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ls | while read f; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}";done

2009-08-27 16:43:56

User: liam

Functions: ls mv read

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Replace spaces in filenames with underscorees

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find ./ -size +10M -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Ssh1 --color

2009-08-25 18:40:47

User: eastwind

Functions: find ls xargs

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Sort file greater than a specified size in human readeable format including their path and typed by color, running from current directory

1. find file greater than 10 MB

2. direct it to xargs

3. xargs pass them as argument to ls

locate -e somefile | xargs ls -l

2009-08-23 13:16:59

User: nadavkav

Functions: locate ls xargs

Tags: Filesystem xargs locate search,

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locate a filename, make sure it exists and display it with full details

use the locate command to find files on the system and verify they exist (-e) then display each one in full details.

sudo du -ks $(ls -d */) | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh 2> /dev/null

2009-08-17 22:21:09

User: Code_Bleu

Functions: cut du ls sort sudo xargs

Tags: disk usage

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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

This allows the output to be sorted from largest to smallest in human readable format.

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find . -type f -printf '%20s %p\n' | sort -n | cut -b22- | tr '\n' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -laSr

2009-08-13 13:13:33

User: fsilveira

Functions: cut find ls sort tr xargs

Tags: sort find ls

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find the biggest files recursively, no matter how many

This command will find the biggest files recursively under a certain directory, no matter if they are too many. If you try the regular commands ("find -type f -exec ls -laSr {} +" or "find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -laSr") the sorting won't be correct because of command line arguments limit.

This command won't use command line arguments to sort the files and will display the sorted list correctly.

ls -laR > /path/to/filelist

2009-08-12 17:53:40

User: shaiss

Functions: ls

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Output all Files in Directory w/ Details to Filelist

Ever need to output an entire directory and subdirectory contents to a file? This is a simple one liner but it does the trick every time. Omit -la and use only -R for just the names

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ls -1 *.jpg | while read fn; do export pa=`exiv2 "$fn" | grep timestamp | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 ".jpg"}' | tr ":" "-"`; mv "$fn" "$pa"; done

2009-08-10 00:52:22

User: axanc

Functions: awk export grep ls mv read tr

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Picture Renamer

Renames all the jpg files as their timestamps with ".jpg" extension.

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