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find -type f | xargs ls -1tr
2013-03-20 16:43:54
User: unixmonkey50727
Functions: find ls xargs
Tags: find ls xargs
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Find files and list them sorted by modification time
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find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5
2013-03-19 12:16:24
User: opexxx
Functions: find head ls sort
Tags: sort find head,
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Find top 5 big files

Find top 5 big files

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ls
2013-03-14 01:28:01
User: yingkailiang
Functions: ls
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ls
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ls -qahlSr # list all files in size order - largest last
2013-03-13 09:52:07
User: mpb
Functions: ls size
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ls -qahlSr # list all files in size order - largest last

I find it useful, when cleaning up deleting unwanted files to make more space, to list in size order so I can delete the largest first.

Note that using "q" shows files with non-printing characters in name.

In this sample output (above), I found two copies of the same iso file both of which are immediate "delete candidates" for me.

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ls -l | grep ^d
2013-03-09 10:16:10
User: Rodia
Functions: grep ls
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list directories only

Long listing alternative

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ls -qaltr # list directory in chronological order, most recent files at end of list
2013-02-25 14:14:44
User: mpb
Functions: at ls
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ls -qaltr # list directory in chronological order, most recent files at end of list

I find it very handy to be able to quickly see the most recently modified/created files in a directory.

Note that the "q" option will reveal any files with non-printable characters in their filename.

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ls -ltrhd */
2013-02-25 12:46:57
User: cyberion11
Functions: ls
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list only directories in reverse order

list only directories in reverse order

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ls -lT -rt | grep "^-" | awk 'BEGIN {START=2002} (START <= $9){ print $10 ;START=$9 }' | tail -1
2013-02-24 23:39:22
User: Glamdring
Functions: awk grep ls tail
Tags: ls date osx
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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 -d */
2013-02-15 14:37:35
User: huazhihao
Functions: ls
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list directories only
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ls -a | du --max-depth=1 -h 2>/dev/null |sort -h
2013-02-13 12:28:47
User: majar
Functions: du ls sort
Tags: disk usage size sort hidden
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Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.
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touch file{1..10}.txt ; ls *txt| sed -e "p;s/\.txt$/\.csv/"|xargs -n2 mv
2013-02-08 15:09:20
User: nomankhn
Functions: ls sed touch xargs
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rename multiple files with different name, eg converting all txt to csv
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for x in `ps -u 500 u | grep java | awk '{ print $2 }'`;do ls /proc/$x/fd|wc -l;done
2013-02-02 20:29:31
User: akashrpatel
Functions: awk grep ls wc
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Count open file handles for a specific user ID
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cd $(ls -1 | sed -n '<N>p')
2013-01-29 22:16:57
User: davidp670
Functions: cd ls sed
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cd Nst subdir
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for i in `pfiles pid|grep S_IFREG|awk '{print $5}'|awk -F":" '{print $2}'`; do find / -inum $i |xargs ls -lah; done
2013-01-24 13:57:19
User: giorger
Functions: awk find grep ls xargs
Tags: find solaris10 inode pfiles S_IFREG inum
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How to find all open files by a process in Solaris 10

Executing pfiles will return a list of all descriptors utilized by the process

We are interested in the S_IFREG entries since they are pointing usually to files

In the line, there is the inode number of the file which we use in order to find the filename.

The only bad thing is that in order not to search from / you have to suspect where could possibly be the file.

Improvements more than welcome.

lsof was not available in my case

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ls -lhR | grep -e "total\|:$"
2013-01-22 04:58:51
User: Sebasg
Functions: grep ls
Tags: ls grep
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List directories recursively showing its sizes using only ls and grep

ls -lhR

Lists everithing using -l "long listing format" wich includes the space used by the folder. Displays it in -h "human readable form" (i.e. 2.2G, 32K), and -R recurses subfolders.

grep -e using a regex, show lines containing the word "total" or a ":" at the end of the line (those with the name of the folder) only.

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ls | wc -l
2013-01-22 03:35:35
User: Sebasg
Functions: ls wc
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Count all files in a directory

ls -1 shows one file per line (update: -1 was not really needed)

wc -l counts the lines received from the previous command

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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ | grep '/sda$' | grep -o 'ata[^ ]*'
2013-01-16 17:28:11
User: michelsberg
Functions: grep ls
Tags: ls grep drive
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Get the /dev/disk/by-id fragment for a physical drive

Substitute for #11720

Can probably be even shorter and easier.

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man ls | egrep "^([A-Z]| [A-Z])"
2013-01-09 17:12:03
User: bartonski
Functions: egrep ls man
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Show sections of a man page.

Uses the formatting of a man page to show an outline of its headers and sub-headers.

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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id | egrep ata-.*`hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep SerialNo | sed 's/.*SerialNo=//' | tr -d "\n"`.*sda$ | sed -e 's/.*ata-/ata-/' -e 's|[ ].*||' | tr -d "\n"
2013-01-07 10:20:25
User: wizonesolutions
Functions: egrep grep ls sed tr
Tags: Ubuntu
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Get the /dev/disk/by-id fragment for a physical drive

This was tested on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) LTS Server. It returns the name of the symlink within /dev/disk/by-id for the physical drive you specify. Change /dev/sda to the one you want, and replace ata- with scsi- or the appropriate type for your drive.

I used this to pre-configure grub-pc during a non-interactive install because I had to tell it which disk to install grub on, and physical disks don't have a UUID such as that blkid provides.

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ls -lSr
2012-12-14 14:39:00
User: unixmonkey44306
Functions: ls
Tags: ls
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ls sort by human readable size (redhat)
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ls -l !(*.part)
2012-12-07 23:07:53
User: quacky
Functions: ls
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list files other than, those, where you know, part of the name (e.g. file extension)

works nice if you're only interested in files that are completed downloading from a torrent

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ls -altr | grep ^d
2012-11-28 17:02:11
User: RedFox
Functions: grep ls
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ls -altr | grep ^d
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for I in $(find . -depth -type d -not -path "*/.svn*" -print) ; do N="$(ls -1A ${I} | wc -l)"; if [[ "${N}" -eq 0 || "${N}" -eq 1 && -n $(ls -1A | grep .svn) ]] ; then svn rm --force "${I}"; fi ; done
2012-11-26 23:53:45
User: olekhy
Functions: find grep ls rm
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Deleting directory recurcive. Directories will be deleled when empty or contains only .svn subdirectory

svn must be 1.7

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find / -xdev \( -perm -4000 \) -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l
2012-11-16 01:11:53
User: anhpht
Functions: find ls xargs
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Find all files with setuid bit
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ls /var/log/sa/sa[0-9]*|xargs -I '{}' sar -u -f {}|awk '/^[0-9]/&&!/^12:00:01|RESTART|CPU/{print "%user: "$4" %system: "$6" %iowait: "$7" %nice: "$5" %idle: "$9}'|sort -nk10|head
2012-10-25 18:27:47
User: omatictost
Functions: awk ls sort xargs
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SAR - List top CPU usage spikes over the last month using sar.
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