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Summarize file sizes of a directory structure?

I have written a small backup script with rsync. I would like to monitor its progress by comparing the total file sizes on the source and destination directories. du Is inaccurate because it measures ...
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ls invalid option '2'

I have the following files (among others) in a directory. I’m running Ubuntu 16.04. 484 May 8 21:50 NA19239.vcf 484 May 9 08:50 HG01583.vcf 484 May 9 08:51 HG01595.vcf 0 May 9 15:11 HG00268-...
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Why doesn't ls combined with awk show exact sizes?

I am trying to find the size of the files on my hard drive in exact bytes, but whenever the size gets too big the number turns all weird (like 1.98329e+12). Can I stop it from doing this or convert ...
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Size of device file ( missing in ls -l output )

When I try to print the device file output shows binary data in hexadecimal format. But upon doing a ls -l /dev/sda I get: brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 29 12:29 /dev/sda I don't ...
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Examine a folder named `-F/` [duplicate]

I think this folder was probably created by accident at some point, but I can't ls or cd to it to check. Things I have tried: ls '-F' ls "-F" ls \-F ls \\\-F ls \\-F and the cd equivalents
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Difference between output of `ls -sh` and `ls -lsh` [duplicate]

$ ls -lsh file.qcow2 204K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193K Jul 19 15:18 file.qcow2` $ ls -sh file.qcow2 204K file....
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Is there any way to control ls output format

I have a directory contains some svg images among its contents. I list them with following ls command to save the output in a file: ls *200px.svg > animList.js The output file looks like: file1-...
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Strange terminal navigation when logged in as new user

I am not even sure how to ask this properly.. I am using EC2 Ubuntu 12.04 I added a new user sudo useradd -g admin admin sudo adduser admin sudo Changed shudders so I can use new user without ...
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List dates of files with sed

I am trying to extract the date modified/modified last week files and folders with sed but i am strugling. Here's my opinion ls -l | sed '/codehere//g' but I have no idea how can this filtering be ...
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How do I determine file type in Linux?

I'm editing the LS_COLORS environment variable. dircolors lists the default colors for different file types. The file types are denoted as follows: bd = (BLOCK, BLK) Block device (buffered) special ...
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Using alias to change ls to ls-l changes(or disables) the colors of ls output

I've used alias to change ls to ls -l, but the colours change to the normal font of the terminal (also tried ls -l before the alias command and the colours appeared fine). What is wrong? Thank you
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How to view list of files in Google Drive?

When I list directory components with $ ls /run/user/1000/gvfs/google-drive:host=gmail.com,user=address 1BzrSykm6X7BBm09yZ7Qcsj_5lL1dMtrN 1p55c8zr6M617qoFU8BopppxaLh0qJTd8 ...
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create a list of files located in multiple directories

I have a set of data files (*.all) located in different folders Documents/rawdata/Geob1005/1.all, 2.all, 3.all,...,n.all Documents/rawdata/Geob1006/A.all, B.all, C.all,...,Z.all and so on......
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Use read line to iterate over variables

I have the following files: $ ls *.png | egrep -i "am|pm" output-0 11.42.30 AM.png output-0 5.10.12 PM.png .... I want to remove them but get this error: $ ls *.png | egrep -i "am|pm" | while read ...
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Why does the ls command show deleted files?

When I type ls in the terminal, it shows the files that are present as well as the files that I have deleted. How can I see the current files only, and why does ls keep a record of deleted files? ls ...
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Ubuntu commands aren't working

My Ubuntu seems a bit weird. cd and mkdir work fine, but instructions other than ls and rm do not. I'm not sure what the problem is. Isn't there another way to initialize this path? I have solved the ...
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Font has been changed

why has the font of my terminal been changed?
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"ls" with one-digit pattern gives me strange results

I'm running Ubuntu as VM in VMWare Fusion on MacPro: ayakovlev@ubuntu:~$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 3.11.10.3 #1 SMP Thu Mar 6 15:31:54 EST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The command below outputs ...
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folder not shown when being created by command line

I have an issue when I am creating a folder by command line. I create it by typing: mkdir TEST and it does not appear on the graphical desktop view. But if I type the command "ls" in the Terminal I ...
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run ls but skip first 3 files

Let's say ls -t returns: 1 2 3 4 5 6 How can I skip the first 3 results? So the result is only: 4 5 6 I am aware I can run ls -t | head -3 but that will simply take the first 3 lines, but I need to ...
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How to list all files in a hard disk with 'find'?

I'd like to list all the files in HDD including size, last modified date and absolute path. idea format : [file size] [last modified date] [absolute path] [ filename] I tried: ls -lhR | awk -v ...
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How can I exclude . and .. when listing hidden items? [duplicate]

ls -d .* lists only hidden "items" (files & directories). (I think) technically it lists every item beginning with ., which includes the current . and above .. directories. I also know that ls -A ...
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Name of first file in directory obtained in optimal way

Ordinary when I want to show name of first file from directory I type: ls raw/all | head -n 1 But it takes long time when in directory there any many files Eg for dir with near to 900 k files we ...
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Getting file name in hex or base64

Due to a question on Software Recommendations, I thought I could implement a program that parses the output of ls -l and displays the files in an Explorer like style. This approach was suggested on ...
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Recursive directory listing of /proc

I'm trying to obtain a recursive directory listing of my filesystem using the command $ ls -alRc from root directory. Everything is running fine except the /proc directory listing, which results ...
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How to set to Black background

Ver: Ubuntu 21.04 In order to change the color scheme, I have set as follows in my .bashrc; export PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;96;40m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' setterm -term linux -back ...
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broke my 'ls' command (and few more)

This is how my ls command looks like now in htop: Also, when I try to run ls (or gimp or libreoffice) I get running stegsolve app that I can't reinstall (even found stegsolve binaries). $ cat /etc/os-...
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Is it possible to rename files selected by ls?

I have some files I downloaded recently and I want to name. It is possible to do something like: rename 's/ /_/g' $(ls -t | head -n5) Actually, I would like to rename last downloaded 5 files. ...
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Real time file sizes?

In order to take a look at the sizes of my VM disk images, I tried ls -lh (as it was suggested here). And here is what it returned: leo@ubuntu:~$ sudo ls -lh /var/lib/libvirt/images total 65G -rw-----...
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ls output not compact anymore

I wanted to ask about the ls command in lubuntu 15.10. Now there is a new line for every entry. I know from other distributions that there is also an output style where ls outputs the content of ...
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Directory permission

I am running 12.04 x64 server on ext4 disk. There are two user groups 'A' and 'B'. For a specific directory, I would like to give its all permissions to user group 'A'. Also I would like to give only '...
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`ls` with wildcard with subdirectories

When I execute a command ls *, it will show files in the current directory directories in the current directories files and directories in the directories in the current directories. When I do use ...
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Display all of the files where the extension starts with a certain letter using ls command

How do I display all files where its extension start with a certain letter using ls command? I tried doing ls d* but that display all files starting with letter d, not extension starting with letter ...
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ls command: Show time only (in iso-format)

I found a way to show the date in iso-format: How to make ls produce ISO 8601 format Now I want to show only the time, not the columns before: ls --time-style=long-iso -l drwxr-xr-x 11 foo foo ...
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ls vs. ls -C difference

commands ls and ls -C seem to produce the same results - display by columns. Is there any difference?
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display the filenames with 4 or more characters using ls

How to display the filenames with 4 or more characters using the ls command
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how can I List files in order

I had an 18GB file I needed to download on a less than great Internet connection. Torrenting wasn't an option. So I busted up the file into 100 segments, and eventually, all of it downloaded. Now I ...
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ls -d not doing what I'm told it should

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Straight machine, no dual boot or anything. I am in ~/scratch I want a list of directories only. tree -dL 1 Got it! man ls says: -d List directories only instead of their ...
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ls system command not showing terminal colors

I've just been fooling around with some code in C, an example of a really basic program is as follows which just, obviously, lists the directories using the ls system command. #include <stdio.h>...
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terminal ls command not showing all files

I'm familiarizing myself with the terminal, and trying to use the ls command is the directory /usr/bin. Unfortunately, it doesn't show me everything in the folder, the terminal cuts it off. How ...
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Why does 'echo *' give different results than 'ls *'?

For example, if you are in home directory and type ls *, you will have all the directories listed, and below the name of the listed directory, the files that it contains. On the other hand, if you ...
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Using the ls command on an Ubuntu 14.04.10 server to explore my files

Very new to Linux, but I thought I understood file exploration from the command line. The problem: I can't figure out how to navigate my files or directories, the console isn't displaying any ...
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How to make locate output look like `ll` or `ls -la` but nicer?

The locate command output is a little bland: $ time locate etc/profile /etc/profile /etc/profile.d /etc/profile.d/appmenu-qt5.sh /etc/profile.d/apps-bin-path.sh /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh /etc/...
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ls list files with multiple sizes

In the case we have some files with different sizes: for example one files smaller than 1 Mb and others bigger than 1 MB for example. If I use ls -l --block-size=M it will show all files with less ...
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Why won't ls display output in multiple columns, for some directories?

The ls command and the ntfs file systems have been discussed quite widely for the colours and how to tweak them using the dircolors option. However there seems more to it, which I have started to ...
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print contents of a directory structure (filesystem) to CSV on the command line

How can I catalog the contents of a filesystem to a CSV file? This is particularly useful for removable media. I've found a couple links that point in this direction: AskUbuntu.com: listing files in ...
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use output from alias command as filename to open in vi

I set up an alias this morning to help finding the latest log file in a directory. My alias looks like alias latest="ls -lat | grep ^- | awk '{print \$8}' | head -1" In my research so far this ...
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How to remove all files with a pattern except the recently created file

How to remove all files with a pattern except the recently created file ls -l total 655748 -rw-r--r-- 1 jetty jetty 120579643 May 10 19:59 2023_05_10.jetty.log -rw-r--r-- 1 jetty jetty 115205809 May ...
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How to disable ls colors on ntfs-mounted partitions only? [duplicate]

I love ls colors and do not want to disable them everywhere, but the ls colors are useless on ntfs-mounted (and probably other similar file systems - like exfat) partitions, because all files there ...
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how to delete all but X last items from find

I want to find some dirs and delete all but the 10 latest dirs. I can find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "XXX*" | xargs rm -rf but that would remove all of them. I can't use head / tail because I don'...
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