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ACL, ls, “permission denied” and a lot of questionmarks
I have two users, Alice and Bob. Bob should be allowed to list, ls, Alice's home directory. Alice also has a file in her home directory that Bob should also be allowed to read.
I run these commands ...
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Is there a command to list files, exclude sub-directories and display size and date?
Before I begin please assume I have only basic knowledge in UNIX. Basic meaning I have only started reading about it since last week for a work related purpose.
I have been experimenting with the ls ...
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Listing both ls information and mount points of a directory?
On my Ubuntu Natty, typically all new drives inserted (e.g. USB Flash thumbdrives) are mounted under /media. So, on my system, I can do something like this:
$ mount | grep '/media'
/dev/sda6 on ...
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1answer
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mark or color empty directories for `ls`
ls's -F flag allows to see the types of file and distinguish directories. Is there a way to add a functionality to distinguish an empty directory?
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4answers
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Find directories that do not contain subdirectories
I'm writing script is ksh. Need to find all directory names directly under the current directory which contain only files, not subdirectories.
I know that I could use ls -alR and recursively parse ...
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2answers
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Why do . and .. have a file size of 4 kB and 12 kB, respectively? [duplicate]
As displayed by ls -al, for example:
drwxr-xr-x 9 jb jb 4.0K Mar 8 18:05 ./
drwx------ 49 jb jb 12K Mar 17 14:15 ../
I assume this is the minimum amount of space required to store the inode's ...
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1answer
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Total vs listed directories [duplicate]
On a server when I type in ls -al I get a list of the directories
-bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Feb 13 2011 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 11 2011 ..
drwxr-xr-x 55 ...
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5answers
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The result of ls * , ls ** and ls ***
I know using the command ls will list all the directories. But what does the ls * command do ? I used it and it just lists the directories. Is the star in front of ls means how deep it can list the ...
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1answer
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How to display directory permission without listing permission for their contents [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make ls show information about the directory specified only, not info about its sub-files or folder contents?
I am new to UNIX and I want to display the ...
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3answers
177 views
What's the best way to list size of / in Terminal?
I want to see how much total space / is taking, but I don't know how to do that. I can use ls -hal and add up the subtotals, or I can use fdisk to tell me the size of that partition, but is there a ...
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1answer
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Why could the size of the “dot file” /. exceed 4096?
Today I found an "empty" directory with a size of 4MB.
It had no visible contents, so I tried ls -lah. This showed me some hidden files (not very large). Searching for the reason why the directory ...
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183 views
Very basic question, ls a different directory and save file
I seriously can't understand where I'm going wrong with his question. The first part is.
List all the file and directory names in /etc which have 1 or more numbers in their name. Remember to use ...
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1answer
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cannot 'ls' /mnt directory
I have a CentOS-6 machine that I'm working on that is running a live database. It's having a problem with the /mnt directory. I cannot ls the directory for some reason. stat is working and shows ...
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2answers
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Why is bash giving me (apparently) conflicting information about a file?
Background
I am working on a RHEL 5 cluster. I want my Fortran program to read the file /home/bob/inputs/input_1
I asked Bob to give me permission to read all contents of inputs:
[bob@server]$ ...
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5answers
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ls: Do not show directories that match same pattern in wildcard searches, only files
Supposing I have something like the following, a typical business PC situation:
drwxr-xr-x 1 whatever whoever 3 Oct 3 16:40 invoices2009
drwxr-xr-x 1 whatever whoever 4 Oct 3 16:40 ...
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2answers
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How can I stop ls from descending into directories, similar to prune for find?
If I type ls *ro* I also get files in subdirectories that match the *ro* pattern.
Is there any option for ls similar to prune?
Ideally a flag, otherwise perhaps an exec?
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2answers
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What does it mean when the output of $ls -lasrt includes '.' and '..'
I input the command:
$ ls -lasrt
And the output includes (there are more results, these are the ones that confuse me):
4 drwxr-xr-x 5 tuc40953 stdchem 4096 Jul 3 17:48 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x ...
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4answers
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How can I list subdirectories recursively?
The obvious
ls -dR
does not work.
I am currently using
find /path/ -type d -ls
but the output is not what I need (plain listing of sub-folders)
Is there a way out?
3
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2answers
134 views
Is it possible to show the contents of a directory without changing into it?
I'd like to show the contents of a folder without first changing into it. for example:
---- Documents
|
|
L_ Essays
If I'm in Documents, how can I show the contents of ...
3
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2answers
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How do I create a structured list of all the files and directories under a particular directory (recursively)?
I need to have an "image" of a file system without actual contents of the files - just all the names and the structure, so that I can read the file and know what files were stored there and how were ...
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6answers
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What's the best way to count the number of files in a directory?
If parsing the output of ls is dangerous because it can break on some funky characters (spaces, \n, ... ), what's the best way to know the number of files in a directory?
I usualy rely on find to ...
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1answer
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How can I make ls show information about the directory specified only, not info about its sub-files or folder contents?
Say I have folder "foo" residing, the home directory. I want to get some info of it, owner, group, permissions, etc...
I then do this to try to get the information:
cd ~
ls -l foo
Of course it now ...
2
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1answer
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Why can't list file/directory relative to .. from a symbolic link directory (No such file or directory)?
I have a /usr/tomcat6/logs directory linked to /var/log/tomcat6.
When I changed directory to /usr/tomcat6/logs and try to ls files using a relative pathname ../conf/Catalina/localhost, a No such file ...
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2answers
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Is there a correct way to list the subdirectories of the current directory?
I can find the subdirectories of a directory by
ls -d -- */
or
ls -l | grep "^d"
but both of these seem indirect, and I would imagine that there would be a standard way to find just the ...
1
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0answers
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How can I list only the directories present in a directory using ls? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there any option with 'ls' command that I see only the directories?
I have a directory with a lot of files but only a few directories.
To get a list of only ...
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2answers
1k views
ls'ing through an entire directory tree to produce one pipeable list of files
This might have been answered already. But I wasn't able to find it.
I have:
directory
directory/subdirectory/subdirectoryofsubdirectory
...
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3answers
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What does size of a directory mean in output of 'ls -l' command?
What does size of a directory mean in output of ls -l command?
