Commands tagged ls (117)
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alias lst="ls -ls -tr | tail" Show Sample Output
0ls -ls -tr | tail -
The AWK part of the code will "collate" the fields from 2nd to Nth field (this is to handle any svn directories that may have spaces in them - typical when working with code that is interchangeably used with windows environment - for example, documentation teams) - the output is passed to "ls -ld" - the -d option to ls will tell ls to handle directories itself, rather than do ls on the directory. The '-p' option is just for pretty printing directories, links and executables (for added readability). Finally, the entire "constructed" command will be passed onto sh for shell execution. Show Sample Output
0svn status | awk -F" " '{ for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) print "ls -ld \""$i"\""}' | sh -
0ls -lt | grep ^- | awk 'NR>=N {print $9}' | xargs rm -rf -i
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Some Unix systems have this by default. Check if you need to add it on yours. Show Sample Output
0alias ll='ls -la' -
0find / \( -mount -o -prune \) \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
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Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output
0nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; } -
I've shortened it to:
lsc PATH | l... by adding ...alias lsc="ls --color"... and ...alias l="less -R"... to my ~/.bashrc file0ls --color PATH | less -R -
It will print a compact ls -la list with the directories at the beginning. --almost-all - do not list implied . and .. --group-directories-first - group directories before files --color - colorize the output --no-group - in a long listing, don't print group names --human-readable - print human readable sizes (e.g., 1K 234M 2G) --classify - append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries If you want to see the owner:
ls -l --almost-all --group-directories-first --color --no-group --human-readable --classifyShow Sample Output0ls -g --almost-all --group-directories-first --color --no-group --human-readable --classify -
0ls -l --color | less -R
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I seem to do this compulsively every time I change directories, sometimes even when I don't, even if I know exactly what I need to do. (Don't worry, the sample output is just an exaggeration. :) Show Sample Output
0grep -cx ls ~/.bash_history -
-1ls | grep -vi pattern
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There's no need for ls or grep; printf is builtin to most modern shells
-1printf "%s\n" !(pattern) ## ksh, or bash with shopt -s extglob -
when working under a cli sometime you need to list the files with ls but u can open gnome file browser with the command 'gnome-open .' under current directory
-1gnome-open . -
Opens the current working directory in the user's preferred application using freedesktop.org's xdg-open.
-1xdg-open . -
-1rm -R `ls | egrep -v 'dir1|dir2|file1'`
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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 -
nothing fancy `ls` alternative `exa`, with most info printed and passed through less with the `-R` (raw) option, to preserve colour output https://github.com/ogham/exa You can add or remove `-@` to print extended attributes for files that have them. Show Sample Output
-1exa -glhrSuU -s size --group-directories-first -@ | less -R -
If you put this in your .bashrc, you might also want to add this to make it use the colors by default:
alias ls="ls --color=auto"-2eval "`dircolors -b`" -
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; } -
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 $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done -
Here's a version that doesn't use find.
-2ls -rl --time-style=+%s * | sed '/^$/,/^total [0-9]*$/d' | sort -nk6 -
Great idea camocrazed. Another twist would be to display a different man page based on the day of the year. The following will continuously cycle through all man pages:
man $(ls /bin | sed -n $(($(date +%j) % $(ls /bin | wc -l)))p)-2man $(ls /bin | sed -n $((RANDOM % $(ls /bin | wc -l) + 1))p) - ‹ First < 2 3 4 5 >
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