Questions tagged [ls]
Questions relating to the Linux 'list' command (ls)
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How do I substitute "ls -l" with the same in "dir"?
I'm using Ubuntu server using local access only SSH, but when I issue the dir command all I get is a single list of files and folders with no details, but using dir -l gives me the long list, but ...
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Why can't I access this folder?
Why can't I access the folder /website1?
juozas@personal:/opt/lampp/htcdocs$ ls
website1
juozas@personal:/opt/lampp/htcdocs$ cd /website1
bash: cd: /website1: No such file or directory
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Different results for ls when accessing Ubuntu via SSH from different clients (Windows-PuTTy, Mac-Terminal)
Consider the following directory structure, printed to the screen using ls -l "$dir" ($dir is a bash variable standing for some folder on the same server, a few levels up), on a remote ...
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Listing files of identical type with ls command can produce files with different colors
Can someone please explain to me why when listing certain files with the same extension, eg .jpg files, why they are sometimes listed green, as well as shown in pink. These are all image files. It ...
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auto colour on ls not enabled even after copying /etc/skel/.bashrc to home
Refer to a comment here I wanted to ask to the poster the question where to copy the .bashrc file to. Because copying it to the home of the user does not enable the auto color ls command.
Please, can ...
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Error in brand new External Hard Drive: "ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error"
This morning I was downloading some files directly to an EXTERNAL Hard Drive (1TB Seagate Hard Drive, bought a week ago) and I had to shut down the PC without unmounting the disk and while it was ...
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Finding all .config files [duplicate]
I am new to Linux and on of my projects is to find all .config files.
I made sure to be logged in as root. What command would I run to do this.
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ls command to exclude certain files [duplicate]
Can some one please help me write an ls command to list files starting with abc (abc*.txt) and exclude the ones containing _DEL_ in the name (abc*_DEL*.txt)
I am trying something like this:
ls abc*....
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ls color white vs. green
I tried looking at What do the different colors mean in ls?, but the list doesn't state the color white.
Look at the image below:
What is the green and what is the white (libfuse.so and libfuse3.so)?...
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How can I use the ls command to find out a folder's owner and group, and what rights they each have? [duplicate]
Just switched completely from Windows to Ubuntu and am happy.
I have a problem; there is a folder called /root. I want to know how I could use the ls command to find out the owner and group ...
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`ls'` command opening another shell [duplicate]
I typed ls' (ls with single quote ) and it opened another shell.
Which type of shell it is? what is it used for?
below is the reference:
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What does "total = n" in the output of "ls -l" indicate? [duplicate]
ls -l
total 36
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vips vips 8776 Jan 11 20:56 a.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips 52 Jan 11 21:44 filemk.sh
drwxrwxr-x 2 vips vips 4096 Jan 11 22:14 hello
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rm -r /media/externalHD --> can't boot without external HD anymore
My external HD was mounted in /media/user/TRANSFER.
By mistake I typed
sudo rm -r /media/theo/TRANSFER
There was an error because the device was occupied and fortunately, I haven't lost my data.
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Why does ls show wrong permissions for the group when using ACL?
I have the following script for setting permissions for the Joomla CMS directory:
#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
echo "Error: Folder does not exist or no folder given."
echo ""
exit 1
fi
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How to print parent working directory
How can I list everything in the parent directory without having to cd there. Can this be done with echo?
In othere words instead of having to do this:
cd .. && ls | grep somefile && ...
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Listing files in directory in one column
Is there a command to print the files in a directory in a single column without this additional info? Basically an ls command but with the output format of:
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
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List all files in dir with color-coding alphabetically (dir and files separated)
I'm looking for a command to list all files in a directory with ls command.
Requirements:
- Alphabetically
- Folders first, then files (both alphabetically)
- No timestamps or other information, just ...
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show git branch in `ls -l`
Is it possible to configure the ls command so that, when I use ls -l, it appends the git branch name after the directory name, if the directory is a git repository?
This way I can quickly find git ...
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What is the meaning of `ls directory > something` [duplicate]
I don't understand the meaning of this command.
ls ../slc > dates
How does it work?
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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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Alias to remove folder prefix from `ls` command
Sometimes ls will prefix file names with a folder name, other times it will not. The following you can duplicate on your platform:
$ ls /var/lib/initramfs-tools
4.10.10-041010-generic 4.4.0-78-...
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Anything like Scroll Lock key in the bash of Linux subsystem in windows 10
When I use ls or ll for some directory, the output is so long and annoyingly the cmd windows can only go back for several lines...
If I use ll | less, all the color info is missing.
Is there ...
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What is the difference between "ls" and "ls -p"? [closed]
Can anyone tell me what is the difference between the ls and ls -p commands in Linux?
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Permission denied from opening directory [duplicate]
I have always wondered how you stop another user from entering a directory. I am in a local installation of GitLab and I see that in my git directory I have a repositories directory. If I try to ls or ...
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terminal - Remove background color of text in ls (with oh-my-zsh arrow theme)
I am using zsh instead of bash in my Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 machine and I'm very frustrated with the background colors when I do ls because I can barely read the text.
Here's a screenshot of my terminal.
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Will this break anything? alias l='ls -ltra'
Will this break anything?
alias l='ls -ltra'
I usually set this alias in .profile in AIX.
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What does the 's' in srwxr-xr-x in the 'ls' output mean?
I have a directory entry as follows
srwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 May 29 05:03 0.0.0.0=
I do not know what the s means and also that is a strange file name and I wonder what it is good for. Could ...
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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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strange ls -l output
This is a sample output of ls -l on my Ubuntu 17.04 box:
drwxr-xr-x 2 amoro amoro 4096 kvě 6 16:26 myfile
There are two parameters that I don't recognize. Counting from left to right, the 6th and ...
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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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How can I find files with 7 characters (and no extension) in their names?
I want to list files that contain only seven characters (without extensions) in their filename.
I have these files in a directory, for example:
1234567
bar.12
dog.cat
1234567.txt
tst.new
big.tst
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Why isn't my zsh ls colorful?
Spin up a new 16.04 server instance, install zsh, chsh to zsh, create the default .zshrc, log back in, ls output is not in colors. The .zshrc does seem to have all the proper dircolors and LS_COLORS ...
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Strange ls behaviour
When I type ls in home directory it shows names of directories with suffix / :
Desktop/ examples.desktop Jupyter notebook/ peda/ Public/ and so on. So how can I fix it?
EDIT:
I use fish shell, type ...
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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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What does ls -al .* command return?
Does it show hidden file names inside all directories? Or just the current directory (including any directory inside it)? I cannot understand why ls -ld .* returns different results (it shows hidden ...
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Useful example of ls -b, --escape
I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm learning the ls arguments.
I've tested the -b, --escape arguments (print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters) but I haven't found an useful example of how use it.
I'...
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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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What does `ls --directory` stand for?
In my Ubuntu version the man ls has the next info about --directory:
list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference symbolic links
So I'm a little confused how it works.
I used ...
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Can't see volume when I run `ls` in teminal
this is my first problem in Ubuntu 16.04:
when I run ls in terminal as you can see
I can't see my volume. I have 315 GB and 104GB volumes
and when I want to make a project in C Lion I can't see my ...
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What is this yellow thing with a pipe? [duplicate]
I noticed that /var/spool/nullmailer directory contains a weird trigger entity which is displayed in yellow and has a “|” suffix.
It doesn't seem to be a directory (at least I can't cd into it), and ...
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'ls' shows more files in directory than nautilus
In home directory ls shows the following:
But let's look what is in Nautilus.
I refreshed Nautilus many times. rm 1.1.c returns a error there is no such file in directory.
What's wrong?
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Why is ls -R called "recursive" listing?
I understand that ls -R displays a listing of directories.
But why is it recursive? How is recursion used in the process?
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Why doesn't ls -lu show correct access time?
Why isn't "ls -lu" showing the access time, instead of the modification time on an ext4 file system?
$ date
Mon Jan 9 12:49:31 EST 2017
$ ls -lu ~/.bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 4326 Jan 8 18:16 /...
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Ubuntu USB connection Problem
The usb connection is confirmed in the Ubuntu terminal command "lsusb", but not in command "ls /dev".
I expected "ttyXXX" format, but I can not confirm it.
++++++ edit ++++++++
This image is that ...
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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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Hidding some of the output of ls -l
The output of ls -lht is
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.6G Jan 3 05:32 vServer.log
When running ls -lht can I add in something that will only show size, mod date and file name?
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Why the pipe command "l | grep "1" " get the wrong result?
As the picture illustrates, I use l to get the file in the current folder. And then I want to get the file with number 1, so I use the pipe and the grep.
But why the 2 and 22 file show out? And what ...
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What's the difference between ls and la? Why do they give the same output?
I entered la accidentally instead of ls to view the contents of a directory and it produces exactly the same output as ls...
Why is this? Surely it doesn't make sense to have two commands that do the ...
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ls command not working under ubuntu 16.04
I looked up this question of ls command not working in ubuntu 14.04.
I get the exact same error.
ls: unrecognized option '--color=auto'
BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) multicall binary.
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Input/Output error while writing specific file to /media/<user>/<deviceName>
I transferred file f to an USB and when the transfer was complete, I ejected the drive but the system showed an error. When I reinserted the drive and did ls -l in it, it reads
-????????? ? ? ? ...
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