The ls command lists the contents of a directory.
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Linux listing files between two date without touch command
I need a command which will list the files between given date and time (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS - format) in to a text file.
I don want to use touch command as its creating permission issue.
I am new to this ...
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How can I display octal notation of permissions with ls - and can octal represent all permissions? [duplicate]
After looking at the man page for ls on my system and searching Google, I see there IS a hack of way to use awk or perl to show octal permissions when using ls, but with bash is there anything more ...
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Why aren't CD image files listed when mounted in current directory?
When mounting a disk image in the current directory using :
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 wall.iso ./
Listing files in current directory only returns wall.iso .
To view the actual files on the disk ...
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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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1answer
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cd and ls in the same call [duplicate]
I often have to cd to a directory and ls to see the directory listing. Can it be done with one shot, so that I can add to .bashrc as alias. I searched on Google, there were some answers, but ...
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why does ls -d also list files, and where is it documented?
when specifying ls --directory a* it should list only directories starting with a*
BUT it lists files AND directories starting with a
Questions:
where might I find some documentation on this, ...
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Something's special about /dev/fd/3
I've been trying to learn about file descriptors. When I type "ls -l /dev/fd/" I get
lrwx------ 1 me users 64 May 2 16:02 0 -> /dev/pts/5
l-wx------ 1 me users 64 May 2 16:02 1 -> ...
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linux + how to ignore (filter) file with space
Sometimes a file name is created from a couple of names and space between each name as the following:
$ touch "A B C"
$ ls
A B C <-- one file but has three words ! ...
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List all files with the same inode number?
Lets say, when I do ls -li inside a directory, I get this:
12353538 -rw-r--r-- 6 me me 1650 2013-01-10 16:33 fun.txt
As the output shows, the file fun.txt has 6 hard links; and the inode number is ...
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sort ls output by users
On Linux, is there a way to sort ls output by users? What I try to achieve is something like this:
user_a file1
user_a file2
user_b another_file
user_c this_file
user_c ...
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vote
1answer
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ls -ld /dir, Solaris [duplicate]
Always when I run ls -ld /dir the output give me the size = 512 even if there are files in it or not.
but when I run du -sh the output give me the actual size of the directory including its content.
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Pass colors from ls through pipe to awk 'print' statement
This is a follow-up to my question from yesterday, Show sum of file sizes in directory listing.
Thanks to Zero Piraeus and a point in the right direction by Mauritz Hansen, I now have
function ...
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Show sum of file sizes in directory listing
The Windows dir directory listing command has a line at the end showing the total amount of space taken up by the files listed. For example, dir *.exe shows all the .exe files in the current ...
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2answers
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Can I `ls` all files in a directory from “1”, “2”,…,“9”, “10”, “11”, …, “20”, “21”, …?
I have a directory with files named "1", "2",...,"9", "10", "11", ..., "20", "21", ... inside.
Can I list them in the order of "1", "2",...,"9", "10", "11", ..., "20", "21", ...?
I have tried ls ...
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1answer
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Which option of ls should be used for understanding metadata changes?
How can one find the latest time of metadata changes to a file?
Let's say I changed the ownership of a file and then I did ls -l. It still shows the latest file changes. But I want to see the time ...
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1answer
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What is the @ after directory listing mean? [duplicate]
so I have some files in a directory and when I type ls -l I get
-rw-r--r-- 1 home staff 275 Apr 9 16:01 index.js
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 home staff 2565 Apr 8 10:38 person.js
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 home ...
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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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1answer
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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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Convert ls -l output format to chmod format
Say I have the following output from ls -l:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 17:21 foo
How can I automatically convert this to the format used by chmod?
For example:
$ echo drwxr-xr-x | ...
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1answer
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What is a sure fire way to find all files and/or path that contains 2 keywords?
I was doing a
find . -iname '*sitesearch*' | grep demo
because I know the file should be some/path/SiteSearch/demo/SiteSearch.html, but it turned out a person put the file in as ...
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1answer
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Must parse ls -Al output and get file or directory name [duplicate]
I must parse ls -Al output and get file or directory name
ls -Al output :
drwxr-xr-x 12 s162103 studs 12 march 28 2012 personal domain
drwxr-xr-x 2 s162103 studs 3 march 28 ...
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output only file names(with spaces) in ls -Al
I should echo only names of files or directories with this construction:
ls -Al | while read string
do
...
done
ls -Al output :
drwxr-xr-x 12 s162103 studs 12 march 28 12:49 personal ...
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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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Working of rm/ls with [0-9]
I am learning the shell commands and came across the short tags eg.[0-9],[[:digit:]] etc.. As a proof of concept i tried deleting all the files with the rm command(i know its not a good practise but i ...
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1answer
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starting vim with command substitution
I am working on a project on two different machines - one running Mac OSX 10.8.3, and one running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. On my Mac, I can do this:
vim $(ls -R */*.@(h|cpp) */*/*.@(h|cpp))
and ...
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votes
4answers
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Find directories that do not contain subdirectories
I'm writing script is ksh. Need to find all directory names directly under the current directory which contain only files, not subdirectories.
I know that I could use ls -alR and recursively parse ...
3
votes
2answers
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Why do . and .. have a file size of 4 kB and 12 kB, respectively? [duplicate]
As displayed by ls -al, for example:
drwxr-xr-x 9 jb jb 4.0K Mar 8 18:05 ./
drwx------ 49 jb jb 12K Mar 17 14:15 ../
I assume this is the minimum amount of space required to store the inode's ...
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votes
4answers
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Shell command to get all the files from a complex directory structure
I'm looking for a shell command in order to get all the files in a complex directory structure. By complex directory structure I mean that there's a root folder with more than 150 subfolders and for ...
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1answer
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`ls` command does not list latest directory contents
The Linux shell does not print up-to-date information when it comes to ls. For example I use my other processes (IDEs etc) to create some directories. However when I run an ls command I don't see ...
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1answer
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Total vs listed directories [duplicate]
On a server when I type in ls -al I get a list of the directories
-bash-3.2$ 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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customise ls color for directories contain specified file/s
How can I colorize directories contain files with word INCORRECT inside?
Example:
I have 3 directories which contain log file.
dir_a/log
dir_b/log
dir_c/log
The file log in dir_c contain word ...
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2answers
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Ignore all matches to negated extglob pattern in recursive ls
I would like to recursively list all files in a directory which match a given input pattern using ls. (Oh, and this is in Bash).
The only way I can think of to do this using ls is to shopt -s extglob ...
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list all files newer than given timestamp and sort them
I want to list all files (sorted by date) that are newer than timestamp in format 20130207003851 in directory /tmp only. Subdirectories can be omitted.
Using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
The ...
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ls and vim color on SunOS 5.8/Solaris 8
I want to use ls and vim with color on Sunos 5.8
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500
I have installed ls (GNU coreutils) 6.9 and vim 7.2
In ~/.cshrc:
setenv TERM sun-color ...
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Get the complement of the result of an ls command
Let's say I have a directory with multiple files, all of which are either binary files (files with no declared extensions) and source files (.c extension). I do this:
$ ls
and get:
README.md ...
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1answer
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How does wc -l `ls` give the actual number of lines?
Can anyone explain to me how does this command work.
wc -l `ls`
while this command gives the total number of java lines or txt lines.
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How do I make `ls` show file sizes in megabytes?
What commands do I need for Linux's ls to show the file size in MB?
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Number of lines outputted by ls
When ls is called, it outputs all the files/directories in the current directory, attempting to fit as many as possible on each line. Why is it that when passed to wc -l, it outputs the number of ...
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votes
1answer
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Local, regular file causes `stat` or `ls -l` to hang
I've seen a few different questions about ls hanging. It's usually because they use the -l switch, which causes a stat on the file, which in turn is a bad symlink or pointing to an NFS mount or some ...
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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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votes
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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Please explain the output of the ls -all command
This is one of the many similar lines from the output from ls -all
lrwxrwxrwx 1 subhrcho dba 25 Dec 6 01:36 beam-server.jpr -> .ade_path/beam-server.jpr
What does the above signify ? I am ...
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votes
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List all files / binaries in current PATH
Is there an "easy" way of running an "ls -la" style command for listing all files / executable binaries in the current PATH?
(I intend to pipe the output into grep, for looking for commands with ...
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votes
5answers
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Print non-existent files from a pipe input
I have a directory of lots of .PDF and .JPG files.
There should be a .JPG file for each .PDF with the same name.
I'm trying to use a command to find .PDF files that doesn't have a .JPG file.
My ...
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how to use grep for specific files?
for example I type
ls -altr | grep "23 Dec"
so it will show files for 23 Dec only and I want to use grep for them, like
ls -altr | grep "23 Dec" | xargs grep -l "some_string"
but this doesn't ...
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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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What does the 'd' mean in ls -al results and what is that slot called?
In Linux, what does the d mean in the first position of drwxr-xr-x? And what are all of the possible letters that could be there, and what do they mean?
I'm trying to learn more about the Linux file ...
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difficalty to save traceroute output in shell variable?
I need to filter and store traceroute output in shell variable (array). But I am getting some unusual output.
As I try to explain in following lines.
My present directory is temp, having some ...
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Identify folder in bash
I was trying to learn how to identify only folders within a folder on the main level.
example:
main
-folder 1
-folder 2
-folder 3
I started with this script:
#!/bin/bash
...
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2answers
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Different count for compressed file listing vs directory listing
I was taking a backup of a folder, where I used the following command :
sudo tar -zcvf www.tar.gz /var/www/
It successfully compressed, just for verifying the number of files in the compressed ...
