Long listing a Directory

Question

2 Questions:

1) How should I long list a directory. Kindly guide me if there's are multiple options to do this .? 2) How do I sort based on the file size?

Answer 1

1) You can use | more and scroll with space or down arrow. like this: /# ls /etc/ | more

2) For sorting by file size use ls -lS or ls -lSh for print sizes in KB MB or GB. If you wanna invert the result, use -r switch. ls -lShr For more arguments ls --help