Commands using ls (517)
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1find / -perm +6000 -type f -exec ls -ld {} \;
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This will list the files in a directory, then zip each one with the original filename individually. video1.wmv -> video1.zip video2.wmv -> video2.zip This was for zipping up large amounts of video files for upload on a Windows machine.
1ls -1 | awk ' { print "zip "$1".zip " $1 } ' | sh -
1ls -d $PWD/*
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1ls -d1 $PWD/{.*,*}
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1ls -d1 $PWD/*
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1find <directory> -type f -printf "%T@\t%p\n"|sort -n|cut -f2|xargs ls -lrt
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Here's an annotated version of the command, using full-names instead of aliases. It is exactly equivalent to the short-hand version. # Recursively list all the files in the current directory. Get-ChildItem -Recurse | # Filter out the sub-directories themselves. Where-Object { return -not $_.PsIsContainer; } | # Group the resulting files by their extensions. Group-Object Extension | # Pluck the Name and Count properties of each group and define # a custom expression that calculates the average of the sizes # of the files in that group. # The back-tick is a line-continuation character. Select-Object ` Name, Count, @{ Name = 'Average'; Expression = { # Average the Length (sizes) of the files in the current group. return ($_.Group | Measure-Object -Average Length).Average; } } | # Format the results in a tabular view, automatically adjusted to # widths of the values in the columns. Format-Table -AutoSize ` @{ # Rename the Name property to something more sensible. Name = 'Extension'; Expression = { return $_.Name; } }, Count, @{ # Format the Average property to display KB instead of bytes # and use a formatting string to show it rounded to two decimals. Name = 'Average Size (KB)'; # The "1KB" is a built-in constant which is equal to 1024. Expression = { return $_.Average / 1KB }; FormatString = '{0:N2}' } Show Sample Output
1ls -r | ?{-not $_.psiscontainer} | group extension | select name, count, @{n='average'; e={($_.group | measure -a length).average}} | ft -a @{n='Extension'; e={$_.name}}, count, @{n='Average Size (KB)'; e={$_.average/1kb}; f='{0:N2}'} -
This will generate the same output without changing the current directory, and filepath will be relative to the current directory. Note: it will (still) fail if your iTunes library is in a non-standard location.
1ls "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications" > filepath -
Nothing too magical here, just uses pngcrush to losslessly compress all your pngs!
1ls *.png | while read line; do pngcrush -brute $line compressed/$line; done -
Sometimes I would like to see hidden files, prefix with a period, but some files or folders I never want to see (and really wish I could just remove all together). Show Sample Output
1alias ls='if [[ -f .hidden ]]; then while read l; do opts+=(--hide="$l"); done < .hidden; fi; ls --color=auto "${opts[@]}"' -
1ln -s /base/* /target && ls -l /target
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Show the UUID-based alternate device names of ZEVO-related partitions on Darwin/OS X. Adapted from the lines by dbrady at http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=700#p700 and following the disk device naming scheme at http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.DiskDeviceNames Show Sample Output
1ls /dev/disk* | xargs -n 1 -t sudo zdb -l | grep GPTE_ -
Substitute for #11720 Can probably be even shorter and easier. Show Sample Output
1ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ | grep '/sda$' | grep -o 'ata[^ ]*' -
I find it useful, when cleaning up deleting unwanted files to make more space, to list in size order so I can delete the largest first. Note that using "q" shows files with non-printing characters in name. In this sample output (above), I found two copies of the same iso file both of which are immediate "delete candidates" for me. Show Sample Output
1ls -qahlSr # list all files in size order - largest last -
zsh: list of files sorted by size, greater than 100mb, head the top 5. '**/*' is recursive, and the glob qualifiers provide '.' = regular file, 'L' size, which is followed by 'm' = 'megabyte', and finally '+100' = a value of 100
1ls -Sh **/*(.Lm+100) | tail -5 -
make usable on OSX with filenames containing spaces. note: will still break if filenames contain newlines... possible, but who does that?!
1svn ls -R | egrep -v -e "\/$" | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 svn blame | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr -
Like top, but for files
1watch -d -n 2 'df; ls -FlAt;' -
Sorts by latest modified files by looking to current directory and all subdirectories Show Sample Output
1find . -name '*pdf*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lt | head -20 -
displays a list of all file extensions in current directory and how many files there are of each type of extension in ascending order (case insensitive) Show Sample Output
1ls | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | grep -oP '\.[^\.]+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -
1npm ls -g|grep "^[├└]\(.\+\)\?[┬─] "
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Very quick! Based only on the content sizes and the character counts of filenames. If both numbers are equal then two (or more) directories seem to be most likely identical. if in doubt apply:
diff -rq path_to_dir1 path_to_dir2AWK function taken from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2912224/find-duplicates-lines-based-on-some-delimited-fileds-on-line Show Sample Output1find . -type d| while read i; do echo $(ls -1 "$i"|wc -m) $(du -s "$i"); done|sort -s -n -k1,1 -k2,2 |awk -F'[ \t]+' '{ idx=$1$2; if (array[idx] == 1) {print} else if (array[idx]) {print array[idx]; print; array[idx]=1} else {array[idx]=$0}}' -
Tested with GNU and BSD ls. Show Sample Output
1ls -la | grep ^l -
With this version, you can list all symlinks in the current directory (no subdirectories), and have it list both the link and the target. Show Sample Output
1ls -l `find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type l -print` -
list all txt files order by time, newest first
1ls -lt --time=atime *.txt -
Adding course name prefix to lecture pdfs Show Sample Output
1ls *.pdf | while read file; do newfile="CS749__${file}"; mv "${file}" "${newfile}"; done; - ‹ First < 6 7 8 9 10 > Last ›
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