Comments on: Unix LS Command: 15 Practical Examples

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:13:09 +0000

Wow, really you can’t do the equivalent of “dir *.txt /s” without typing something like ls -R | grep “.txt”..??
Either I’ve missed something or I must have missed out on the decision to make it so the normal user can’t use the operating system without immersing themselves in decades of dedicated training…

By: Prescilla

Prescilla — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:27:42 +0000

thanks for this very useful post. but can anyone tell me what the “total” means? that is the first line of every ls -l command and i haven’t figured out what it refers to.

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Understand UNIX / Linux Inodes Basics with Examples — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:04:07 +0000

[...] we explained earlier in our Unix LS Command: 15 Practical Examples article, the flag -i is used to print the Inode number for each [...]

By: kiran varma

kiran varma — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:51:46 +0000

thanks for the information provided it is very usefull

By: Haoza

Haoza — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:38:36 +0000

Didn’t understand point 14. Visual Classification of Files With Colors Using ls -F

By: YM

YM — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:36:37 +0000

Does anybody know how to list “one file” that is in each of the sub directories of root?

By: Aparna

Aparna — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:34:25 +0000

This website is very good. I am newbee to Unix and was trying to find out how the size of a file/folder is measured, finally i found ls -lh to my rescue in this website.

By: Sonika

Sonika — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:28:47 +0000

really good collection of commands

By: gambit

gambit — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:09:49 +0000

Hi Ramesh,

ls -lh doesn’t seem to work on AIX 5, any idea how can i view my files in GB format?

Thanks.

By: sam1985

sam1985 — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:38:22 +0000

Hi Ramesh, long time follower. Is there a way for ls to display alphabets in language other than English like Russian. I am on Windows and use Cygwin 1.7.10 & Mintty 0.9.9. Files that are in Russian are displayed using question marks ????.mp3. The font is Consolas and echo *.* shows
file name perfectly making ls the culprit. Any ideas ?? Thanks!