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.

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

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.

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

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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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.

this is the much easier zsh equivalent ...

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

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

Compare the ls -Rl output of two directories in meld (you can also use diff -y instead of meld).

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

shorter version. I believe find is faster than ls as well.

for those without the tree command. Show Sample Output

This doesn't require any non-standard programs.

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

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.

Clear the screen and list file

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])

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

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.