Command to list information about files.
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How can I get ls to print output as it goes along?
It seems that under most situations ls will read the whole directory before producing any output - typically because it needs to sort or columnise the output. Normally this is fine but when reading a ...
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1answer
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ls: cannot access file : No such file or directory. [closed]
In the shell script, I will have to access the binary logs stored in /usr/local/mysql/data.
but when I do this,
STARTLOG=000002
ENDLOG=000222
file=`ls -d ...
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2answers
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changing colors of files/dirs in linux ls
I use putty with a black background and was wondering if there was or is a way to change the colors of the dirs which are dark blue.
i noticed
DIR_COLORS.xterm
and
DIR_COLORS
do they play this role?
...
3
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1answer
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After emptying a directory with 60,000 small files, ls -l still shows large directory size?
Here is the ls -l after I did rm -f inside the cur and new directories.
I expected the directory "sizes" to shrink back to the default "4096".
[root@example Maildir]# pwd
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1answer
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linux + change/edit file without effecting on file date [closed]
I want to edit some file in my linux for example
ls -ltr /etc/some_file
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Jul 1 2010 sysstat
.
echo "Server101_IP=187.0.98.4" >> /etc/some_file
.
I ...
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1answer
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linux\solaris + print specific date format from file
subject - print file date on solaris as format: yymmdd ( yy - year , mm - month , dd - day )
on Linux machine I type the following command in order to get: file date
as the following:
ls -l ...
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3answers
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How to find largest files in a dir - ignoring directory sizes
I want to do something like this
du -a | sort -rn | head
But I want to extract files only, ignoring directories.
To be clear, I want to traverse through all sub-directories but I don't want to ...
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2answers
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How to redirect ls to the cd command
I want to do ls | grep something and cd to the one thing that is listed. I tried with | and searched, but nothing found. Is it using xargs?
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1answer
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Glob Not Match?
How to list files that don't match a glob?
E.g., let's say I have a directory that contains hundreds of files, 97% of which have the filename extension .png.
I know I can list the PNG files with:
...
2
votes
1answer
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Cannot open files modified with Cygwin on Windows, clue in ls -l output
I can no longer open the tabs.html and tabs.js files indicated in the output below (2nd and 3rd out of four). Using cygwin I applied a patch to them.
I believe the clue is in the ls -l output. ...
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2answers
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linux or solaris match files with uniq syntax
how to match all files that start with the string OS_PATCH
and ended with .gz
remark - the solution must to fit Linux and Solaris OS
this task could be by find command or maybe with ls with ...
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2answers
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remove files starting with dash
I have (by mistake) created several files starting with a dash in my home directory. I can not select them nor delete them.
# ls -lht
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 325 Mar 22 16:33 -s-vmstat-overall
...
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3answers
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List files and directories in linux [closed]
I am not very familiar with Linux. I have got root access of a server. When I run the command "ls" then it displays nothing. No error no information nothing. When I run "ls -l" it displays "total 0"
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3answers
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How do I exclude directories when listing files?
How do I exclude directories when listing files in the current directory?
ls .
^ will include directories in the listing.
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1answer
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'ls' taking a long time to list 20 subdirectories
I have a directory (my_dir) which has 20 sub directories. Every time I run 'ls' or try to autocomplete a file name in this directory my IO usage goes to 100% and it takes very long time (10 mins) to ...
4
votes
2answers
635 views
FreeBSD: How to know real file size on zfs with compression on?
I'm using zfs on my FreeBSD 9.0 x64 and pretty happy with it, but I find it hard to count directory real, not compressed, size.
Surely I can walk over the directory and count every file size with ...
2
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2answers
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Is there a way to ls -l with like a -f option (like tail -f)?
Suppose I am extracting a huge file or slowly building up a huge file. Is there a way to have ls -lh "on" much like tail -f, so that I can constantly see the size of the file grow until I decide to ...
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Why does a file on an NFS mount seem to cache randomly, but no longer be cached when running `ls`?
Here's the mount configuration of an NFS mount, we'll call it server2, gotten from running cat /etc/mtab:
<ip1>:/mnt/fs101 /mnt/fs101 nfs ...
1
vote
3answers
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cd or ls not found?
All commands have been working until a few days ago on our Ubuntu server. When running ls or cd it returns bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory.
How can this be fixed?
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votes
1answer
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Who is the “author” of a file (Gnu “ls” manual)
In the manual for Gnu "ls," I see this:
--author
with -l, print the author of each file
Does anybody know what the “author” of a file means in this context?
This is (maybe?) not the ...
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3answers
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Cannot remove or list directory (ls or rm) Linux - Debian
I have a log file directory at /var/log/apache2/vhosts on a Debian dedicated server. Every day I split the main access_log into respective vhostname.com_access_log files in /var/log/apache2/vhosts
In ...
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2answers
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Why might `ls --color=always` be slow for a small directory?
For a certain directory DIR on my system, the ls --color=always takes about 8 seconds, although it contains less than 10 files and subdirectories. Without the color argument it takes no time.
Why ...
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2answers
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-h not working for 'ls' command in Sun SPARC
I was trying this command for listing files in human readable form:
$ ls -lh ...
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What does the new full stop / period mean in the RHEL6 ls output?
We have scripts looking at the output of ls -l output for permission information that have been failing recently on RHEL v6 systems which appear to be showing an extra . at the end of the permission ...
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4answers
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What is the difference between du -h and ls -lh?
I am having a difficult time grasping what is the correct way to read the size of the files since each command gives you varying results. I also came across a post at ...
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2answers
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Why does ls -lh and ls -ldh give me varying file size?
Why is that there is a difference in the file sizes as denoted in the screenshot i.e. the total file size under ls -lh is 44k whilst the size of the folder is only 4k? Am I reading it incorrectly?
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2answers
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df showing wrong disk size
Df -h is showing a wrong empty space on my server, for one of the disks:
/dev/sda2 450G 393G 34G 93% /
Cpanel shows that it has only 34GB free, but there is a lot more. A few ...
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vote
2answers
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echo with each parameter on its own line
I would like an output similar to ls -1d, but I don't want to check if each file exists. I would prefer to just list the files. I could use echo, but echo only puts a space between files.
How can I ...
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3answers
951 views
Absolute path with ls?
How can I make the ls command show a file's full path instead of just its filename? With all its options, there must be a way, right?
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2answers
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What does the “@” sign mean in ls -l output?
I have this output on MacOSX:
$ ls -l
total 40
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 levente staff 52 30 Sep 15:38 pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 levente staff 675 14 Feb 17:07 plplay
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 levente staff 662 26 Jan 14:13 ...
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Ubuntu - * at the end of filename?
In Ubuntu 10.10, showing a file listing using ll will occasionally show files with a * appended to the name of the file. What does this star mean?
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PuTTY pscp directory listing - can you specify a different file date/time format?
I'm using pscp.exe from PuTTY with the -ls option to get a directory listing via STDOUT to a perl script.
The output I get is this:
Listing directory /path/to/my/directory
drwxr-sr-x 2 234 ...
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5answers
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ls returns nothing only in certain directories
I have a raid drive mounted here:
/data/
And certain directories like this one:
/data/somedir/somesubdir/
when I run
ls
w/ or w/o any flags, terminal doesn't return anything. It does not ...
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votes
1answer
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cp -R source_dir/* dest_dir/ does overwrite files?
I am trying to copy, recursively, the content of a directory to another using:
cp -Rv source_dir/* dest_dir/
It seems that everything work ok but when I list that directory with ls -l the change ...
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votes
1answer
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Folder size is greater than 4K on ext3
Lets say we have a default formatted ext3 filesystem, I run under the assumption that folders take 4K of space on the disk.
But, what does it mean when a folder is bigger than 4K?
Here is a pic of ...
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votes
1answer
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ls -al stalls in an ssh session
I have a very strange problem when I log into a remote machine using ssh. Here's the scenario:
I log into a remote machine using ssh (this machine in not in the local lan)
I do ls (it works)
I do ls ...
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1answer
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What is the alternative to ls --time-style=full-iso in BSD?
command in Linux
$ ls -lt --time-style=full-iso
output
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 mduda mduda 1855 2009-08-26 13:07:55.000000000 +0200 screen-configurations.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 mduda mduda 4096 ...
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Colors in bash after piping through less?
When I have dircolors defined life is full of... color.
When I pipe ls through less to scroll around I lose the colors.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Mathew
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In Unix is it possible to list directory entries after a starting point?
For example, if my directory contains files a, b, c, c1, c2, c3, c4, d, e, f, g
Is there a command something like the following pseudo code
ls -filename>"c2"
that would only list files c3, c4, d, ...
