Sorted, recursive long file listing

lsr() { find "${@:-.}" -print0 |sort -z |xargs -0 ls $LS_OPTIONS -dla; }

Tells you everything you could ever want to know about all files and subdirectories. Great for package creators. Totally secure too. On my Slackware box, this gets set upon login: LS_OPTIONS='-F -b -T 0 --color=auto' and alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS' which works great.

Sample Output

=[9 h3xx@necronomicon ~ ]= $ lsr ~/.cron
drwx------ 10 h3xx users  304 Aug 13 01:45 /home/h3xx/.cron/
drwx------  2 h3xx users  264 Aug 14 03:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  466 Jun 10 13:10 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/clean-chrome-tmp.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users 4973 Aug 13 22:59 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/clean-maildirs.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  117 Aug  9 18:32 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/clean-thumbscache.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users   50 Aug 10  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/linuxcounter.sh*
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users 1264 Oct 12  2007 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/mkbackups.sh
-rw-------  1 h3xx users  375 Oct  7  2005 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/rcsync.sh
drwx------  2 h3xx users  224 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users  937 Dec 31  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/.bash-history.sh-notworking
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  433 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/getmail-3.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users 4427 Jul  6  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/randsig.pl*
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users 1358 Aug 17  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/stupid-curl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  172 Aug 13 00:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/waffles-log.sh*
drwxr-xr-x  2 h3xx users   80 Dec 31  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01m/
-rw-------  1 h3xx users  218 Mar 27  2006 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01m/vidcap.sh
drwx--x--x  2 h3xx users   48 Mar 21  2008 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.05m/
drwx------  2 h3xx users  160 Aug  2 03:31 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  140 Apr 20  2009 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/clean-vim-views.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  165 Apr 17  2008 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/insert_bash_history.sh*
-rwx--x--x  1 h3xx users   92 Sep 28  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/logrotate.sh*
drwxr-xr-x  2 h3xx users   80 Aug 14 03:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.15m/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  433 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.15m/getmail-1.sh*
drwxr-xr-x  2 h3xx users   96 Aug 14 03:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30d/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  752 Aug 13 23:50 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30d/bogofilter-db-maintenance.sh*
drwx------  2 h3xx users  144 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  367 Jan 23  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/dyndns-update*
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users  433 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/getmail-2.sh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 h3xx users   26 Aug 18  2008 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/process-spam.sh -> ../../libs/process-spam.sh
-rwx--x--x  1 h3xx users 4125 Aug 13 01:41 /home/h3xx/.cron/install-crontab*
-rwx--x--x  1 h3xx users 4122 Aug 13 01:34 /home/h3xx/.cron/install-crontab~*
=[9 h3xx@necronomicon ~ ]= $

By: h3xx

2011-08-15 03:10:58

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