Questions tagged [ls]
The command to list the contents of a folder/directory in Unix and Unix-like systems.
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How can I sort the output of 'ls' by last modified date?
How can I sort the output of ls by last modified date?
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How to have Linux ls command show second in time stamp
Something annoying about ls -l command is it shows only hour and minute for a file(like 08:30). How can I see the second portion(like 08:30:44)?
man 1 ls and search for 'second' does not give any ...
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What does the asterisk mean after a filename when you type `ls -l`?
I've done an ls -l inside a directory, and my files are displaying like this :
james@nevada:~/development/tools/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ ll
total 9512
drwxr-xr-x 3 james james 4096 2010-05-07 ...
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ls-command: how to display the file size in megabytes?
In Unix (Tru64), how do I make the ls command show the file size in megabytes? Currently I am able to show it in bytes using the following:
ls -la
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On OS X, why does `sudo ls` show hidden (dot) files?
With OS X Yosemite, using the following commands, I get the following:
$ touch .a
$ touch b
$ /bin/ls
b
$ /bin/ls -A
.a b
$ sudo /bin/ls
.a b
It shows hidden files (that have names starting with a ...
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How to sort first directories then files etc… when using “ls” in Unix
I would like to use the ls command to first show directories and then files. I tried:
ls -la | sort -k 1
But I got a wrong order.
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What does the @ mean on the output of "ls" on OS X' terminal?
When doing an ls in a directory I get the following output:
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 xonic staff 408 22 Jun 19:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 xonic staff 306 22 Jun 19:42 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 xonic staff 6148 25 ...
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Icon? file on OS X desktop
When I ls my Desktop from terminal (by using ls ~/Desktop), I see a file named Icon?. As far as I can tell, it's empty (nano Icon? shows nothing). It doesn't show up on my actual Desktop, and open ...
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How do I get ls --color=auto to work on Mac OS X?
I'm trying to move my bash configuration from Ubuntu to Mac OS X and it looks like ls is slightly different. For instance, it won't accept the --color option.
How do I get this to work?
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How to make `ls` color its output by default, without setting up an alias?
I don't want an alias (alias ls='ls --color'), and I had previously set this up on Mac OSX using CLICOLOR environment variable which magically brought colors to ls. Now I am on Linux (Arch x86-64) ...
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How can I make "ls" show dotfiles first?
Somewhere along the way I screwed up my ls command and now I get this ordering when running
$ ls -AhHl --color=auto
-rwxr-xr-x 1 clang clang 640 Mar 1 02:46 apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
-rwxr-...
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How to list folders using bash commands?
Is there any way to list just the folders in a directory using bash commands? ( as the ls command lists all the files and folders )
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How can I list only non-empty files using ls?
How can I list (using ls) all files that are not empty (size > 0) using linux?
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The command 'ls -d' is not displaying directories. Is there a way to get 'ls' to only display directories instead of files and directories?
Is there a way to get ls to only display directories instead of files and directories?
From the man page:
-d, --directory
list directory entries instead of contents, and do not derefer‐...
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How to diff file names in two directories (without writing to intermediate files)?
I am trying to do something along the lines of:
diff `ls -1a ./dir1` `ls -1a ./dir2`
But that doesn't work for obvious reasons. Is there a better way of achieving this (in 1 line), than this?
ls -...
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Why does the `ls` command sort files like this?
As I was trying to reverse engineer the ls command, I came upon an interesting behavior. When I make 3 files, foo.png, foopa.png, and fooqa.png, ls sorts them as foopa.png, foo.png, and fooqa.png. I ...
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Why ls and du show different size?
I am downloading a file with rtorrent,
When I check the folder that the file is located on, the filesize with ls command is 4.4GB but when I check the disk with du command it shows me 219MB, also the ...
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Why does ls wrap some filenames in single quotes?
I've noticed that when I do ls in a terminal, some filenames are wrapped in single quotes and some aren't.
I don't like the way this looks as I prefer my terminal outputs to be nice and uniform. ...
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Tell `ls` to print only the base filename
This is the default behaviour of ls
ls /net/nas/data/languages/pypm/sites/rex/free/2.6/*/pool/v/vi/virtual*1.4.4*pypm
/net/nas/data/languages/pypm/sites/rex/free/2.6/linux-x86/pool/v/vi/virtualenv-1....
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What is the meaning of 'T' in the execution permissions of a directory?
I just found this confusing output of the ls command:
whodare@ubuntu~ $: ls -l /var/spool/cron/
total 12
drwxrwx--T 2 daemon daemon 4096 Oct 29 05:02 atjobs
drwxrwx--T 2 daemon ...
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How do I interpret the results of the `ls -l` command?
I want to learn about the meaning of values for example first line;
drwxr-xr-x 2 ataka root 4096 2008-11-04 16:58 ataka
is ataka here the owner of directory ?
kioutsovkm@orkide:/users/lnxsrv2/ee$ ...
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How do I limit the number of displayed lines through ls?
Let's say I have a command
ls -Bgclt /somwhere/in/the/past
How do I limit the output to show me only first 2 files? (except for having only 2 files in that directory)
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Show both ctime and atime in ls output
Can I get both ctime and atime in ls output? Seems I can only pass one --time=ctime or --time=atime argument (the second is ignored). Is there any other way?
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How to use wildcards with ls without listing directory contents?
ls typically displays only the files and folders in the present directory. But once you add a wildcard it starts searching in sub-directories.
example:
$ ls
fight_folder file1 file2
$ ls f*...
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What is the magic separator between filenames in ls output?
The output of ls (with no arguments) appears to separate filenames with linebreaks.
Evidence:
ls | grep foo works as expected, with grep treating each filename as a separate line of input.
ls > ...
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what does it mean a red filename shown with black background?
I have a compilation problem, and when I check my lib/ directory I get this output from "ls":
What the red/black combination mean?
I checked in the output of "dircolors -p" as suggested here (What ...
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What does the number after Unix/Linux file permissions like "-rw-rw-r--. 1 " mean in "ls -l" output
Can any one explain -rw-rw-r--. 1 and give some "detailed" information on ls -lart command.
Specifically, what does the number 1 after the file permissions mean?
Why does it change or why is it ...
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ls -la symbolics... what does that last symbol mean?
Possible Duplicate:
what does the @ mean on the output of ls on os x terminal?
when I type ls -la I get this familiar output...
drwxr-xr-x+ 38 kent staff 1292 Nov 6 11:09 .
drwxr-xr-x ...
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Recursive ls with conditions
Why can't I use a command like this to find all the pdf files in a directory and subdirectories? How do I do it? (I'm using bash in ubuntu)
ls -R *.pdf
EDIT
How would I then go about deleting all ...
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What does the first dash mean in an ls -l output?
From the bash man pages about viewing permissions with ls:
User ls output
Owner -rwx------
Group ----rwx---
Other -------rwx
That makes sense, but what is the first - used for then? It's ...
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Run an ls without getting the full path
I want a simple list of files in a directory that is not my current directory. I run ls /other/directory/*.txt and get:
/other/directory/file1.txt
/other/directory/file2.txt
I want:
file1.txt
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What does the @ in ls -al mean? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ls -la symbolics… what does that last symbol mean?
What does the @ in the below execution of ls -al mean?
atom:Lib fak$ ls -al
total 1056
drwxr-xr-x 5 fak staff ...
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How to produce a Linux-like `ls` output in Powershell?
I don't want the output of ls(Get-ChildItem) to be vertical (one file one line) in Powershell. I want it to be horizontal (like a table in Linux). After searching the web I don't know how to do that.
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How to list files recursively and sort them by modification time?
How do I list all files under a directory recursively and sort the output by modification time?
I normally use ls -lhtc but it doesn't find all files recursively. I am using Linux and Mac.
ls -l on ...
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ls -rt (How to list just THE LAST file? e.g. for: | xargs gnome-open)
e.g. directory containing jpeg files: how to easily open just the most recent jpeg in the current directory?
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List files of folder page by page with LS command
I'm wonder if there is some way to list all files of a folder by ls, I know how to use ls for a folders which are small but if list of files doesn't match with the screen size what should I do? there ...
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List file range with UNIX wildcards
Say for example I have the following files in my working directory:
mjk0001.fits, mjk0002.fits, ... numerically increasing all the way to mjk9999.fits.
Is there a way to use UNIX wildcards to list or ...
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Bash: ls * without folder grouping
If I type:
ls source/*
source/fonts:
fontello
source/images:
bg1.png eng.png fra.png
I get the list of files, grouped by folder names.
How can I simply get the list of ...
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How to list files sorted by owner in Unix?
I need to list the files in my current directory sorted alphabetically by the file owner name. Does ls have a way to do this?
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how to list all files and directories in given directory with full path but not recursive?
Somehow like dir /b command but I need also hidden and system files there. Built in dir command doesn't allow to list such 'hidden' files with the rest and I must use /s to have full path in there, ...
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How to `ls` a remote folder?
This one uses Samba:
$ ls smb://192.168.5.4/wdtvlivehub/abc
ls: cannot access smb://192.168.5.4/wdtvlivehub/abc: No such file or directory
I somehow managed to do it by;
Browsing to the remote ...
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Filter ls output based on file size
I want to filter the output of the ls command based on file size. Any .jpg or .png files greater than 100KB should be reported in the output.
I've been able to filter the .png / .jpg files, but I'm ...
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Making ls aware of "hidden" file flag
Is it possible to make ls aware of the hidden file flag on Mac OS X?
Currently, a simple ls -lO produces:
$ ls -lO
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 84 danielbeck staff - 2856 29 Mai 22:44 Applications
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How to physically reorder files `03.mp3 01.mp3 02.mp3` (`ls -f`) in a directory?
The physical order of the files matters when I copy them onto my USB stick and listen in car mp3 player. Most of my music album folders are unsorted, e.g. ls -f may produce:
03.song3.mp3
01.song1.mp3
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Vi can write to file despite file being read-only
The following example show how to create a file with only read permissions.
As we can see, when I try to write to this file using the echo command I get, Permission denied.
But why, in the case that ...
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Ubuntu's ls can show unicode characters, but tree cannot, even with tree --charset unicode
Ubuntu 10.04's ls can show unicode characters, but tree cannot, even with tree --charset unicode or utf8. Is there a way to solve it. echo could interpret the escape characters except cat list.txt | ...
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What does third symbol in "rw-" file mode mean in OS X ls manual page?
I have trouble understanding ls's manual regarding a file that has rw- mode. Here's the quote:
If r, the file is readable; if −, it is not readable.
If w, the file is writable; if −, it is not ...
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ls | grep | rm -- How to format this command?
I'm trying to delete a bunch of files in a certain directory (on Mac OS X using Terminal)
ls | grep \([1-9]\) | xargs rm
should do the trick, but it doesn't. I'm trying to delete any file with a ...
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Recursively list full absolute path of files with permissions in Linux
I have done a bit of searching online, and I am trying to find a way to recursively list all files with their absolute path and with their permissions. I want to do this so that I can grep out what I ...
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Linux: ls -l prints only question marks:
I have a problem with listing of some directory with ls -l:
$ ls -l ./directory
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? file001.txt
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? file002.txt
and just ls works good:
$ ls ....
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