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Questions tagged [ls]

Questions relating to the Linux 'list' command (ls)

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How can I make ls only display files?

I figure there has to be a way of making ls only display non-directories, but the man page doesn't make it obvious
user453720
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listing files in a directory without listing subdirectories and their contents in that directory

I want to create a list of all the files in a directory, without listing any of the subdirectories that reside in that same directory, and print that list to a new file. ls -d * > filelist will create a list of all the files in the current…
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What's the easiest way to remove the "total " line from the output of ls -l?

The best I could find via Google/man ls was: ls -l | grep -v '^total' Is there something I'm missing in the flags to ls? Also, why is the total size in kb, regardless of the -h flag? scratch that, seems like it does, not sure what I was seeing…
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How does ls -l format its output so neatly?

How does ls -l format its output so that column contents line up neatly?
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Can ls -l be made to separate fields with tabs rather than spaces to make the output useful in a spreadsheet?

How can the output of ls -l be modified to separate fields using tabs instead of spaces? I want to paste the output into a spreadsheet; the padding with a variable number of spaces makes it difficult to do so. To illustrate: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root…
user25656
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Why doesn't this wildcard work the way I expect?

On my user folder, I have folders like D ropbox, D ocuments, D ownloads & d ump. ls a* should list all the files whose name starts with a. Right? But when I gives the command ls d*, instead of just displaying dump it shows me the ls of dump…
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Preserving multi-column output from ls when paging

By default, ls displays its output in multiple columns, but when it's sent to a pager such as less it's reformatted as a single column. Is there any way I can page the original, multiple-column output and preserve the formatting?
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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 result which I expect: ayakovlev@ubuntu:~$ ls…
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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 d.
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List files that were changed between a certain datetime

Possible Duplicate: How to remove files modified between particular dates? How can I list all files recursively in a directory that were changed within a certain timespan? like between 23.12.2011 and 25.12.2011 ?
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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 11 19:59 2023_05_11.jetty.log -rw-r--r-- 1 jetty…
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Set -h as default for ls?

I use the -h flag to make ls report in M,K,G etc Can I set the -h flag to be the defaul for ls so I don't need to write it every time ?
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ls command to view particular string in filename within directory

I have bunch of files in one directory. I want to list specific files within this directory whose name as follows; stacov_abcd0230.15o stacov_abcd0240.15o stacov_ab120240.15o stacov_01020240.15o There are always 8 characters string after stacov_…
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What does `ls /` do?

Running the ls / command some files are coming out; What are those files? They are not even directories. Output of ls /: bin dev boot etc cdrom media mnt home lib lib64 proc root
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Selecting from list like array (without name by number)

After I ls and see the list, is there anyway to process a document without typing its name? For example instead of typing rm damnSoLongFileName, can I type something like rm [1]? I mean is there anyway to use ls like array?
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