Top "Ls" questions

tail-like continuous ls (file list)

I am monitoring the new files created in a folder in linux. Every now and then I issue an "ls …

linux shell ls

List all files not starting with a number

I want to examine the all the key files present in my /proc. But /proc has innumerable directories corresponding to …

regex linux shell ls

Globbing with ls to find all files matching a certain pattern

I'm trying to locate all PDF files in some folder and any subfolder, just in the terminal, as opposed to …

glob ls

"find -ls" with proper time-style

i use the following command to generate a filelist which i compare sometimes to see if something is changed: find /…

linux bash find datetime-format ls

sed with filename from pipe

In a folder I have many files with several parameters in filenames, e.g (just with one parameter) file_a1.0.…

sed pipe ls

How can I set default arguments for "ls" in Linux?

Im constantly doing "ls -ahl" whenever I want to list what is in the directory. Is there a way for …

linux ls

Why is `find -depth 1` so slow to list directories?

I am listing directories in the current directory. Here are the two commands I am comparing: ls -F | grep / find . …

bash performance find ls

Preserve ls colouring after grep'ing

If I do $ ls -l --color=always I get a list of files inside the directory with some nice colouring …

bash grep colors ls

find files that have number in file name greater than

If I have 10 files called 01-a.txt, 02-a.txt,...10-a.txt - how can I find the files where the …

linux file ls

How to sort output of "s3cmd ls"

Amazon "s3cmd ls" takes like this output: 2010-02-20 21:01 1458414588 s3://file1.tgz.00<br> 2010-02-20 21:10 1458414527 s3://file1.…

regex bash sorting ls