Questions tagged [ls]
Command to list information about files.
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cygwin find -ls behaviour like ls [closed]
I use cygwin find with -ls (find . -ls) option to have a list of files with full path.
Due to UTF-16 (windows XP in this case) converted to en_UTF-8 under cygwin, special charactere like accent are ...
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Input/output error reading USB backup drive on CentOS 6.4
I'm suddenly seeing some strange behaviour on our USB backup drive that doesn't make sense to me:
(2013-10-21 14:58:23 [root@newdc /]$ cd /mnt/backup/
(2013-10-21 14:59:03 [root@newdc backup]$ ls -la
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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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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 --time-...
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How can I search for symlinks that point to other symlinks? [closed]
I have morass of chained symlinks like this scattered around:
A (symlink) -> B (symlink) -> C (file)
Some may even involve longer chains, I'm not sure yet.
When manually examining a single file ...
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ls command that shows AM/PM
I'm using a CentOS 7 OS, configured based on AM/PM.
Is there a linux command line (like ls --full-time) that shows full time information including AM/PM?
Below example does not show AM/PM:
# ls --full-...
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ls command hangs after I pause the destination folder
I have two instances of RHEL 7 Linux, machine 1 and machine 2. Machine 2 has a folder that is mounted to a remote folder from machine 1. It is done with command: mount -t cifs -o user=aaa,pass=...
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ls *.csv --ignore="*pattern*" returns files which contain "pattern"
Why does ls --ignore not ignoring the pattern?
Looking at the below example:
mkdir books
cd books
touch books_abby.csv
touch books_karen.csv
touch books_david.csv
touch books_tom.csv
This creates ...
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How would I list owners and permissions for all directories named X recursively?
Basically I would like to do a 'ls -l' recursively showing only those directories named web. How would I accomplish that?
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Why does dovecot cur folder remain very large after emptying it?
My CentOS system, used for PHPList, accumulates incoming mail in this path:
/var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/noreply/Maildir/cur
There used to be hundreds of thousands of emails in this mailbox, they ...
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du, df and ls report wrong free / used space [duplicate]
We have an Ubuntu 12.04 server running on a VMware ESXi host, with multiple partitions, running Zimbra 8 (mta/ldap only). One of partitions is a 30GB partition mounted as /opt/zimbra/data. I had a ...
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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
-rw-...
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Why does ls -1 not show all results? [closed]
I am trying to get a list of only directory names in order to store it in a variable for a foreach for processing later on.
However, just testing the ls first I am getting weird results.
For ...
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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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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 /usr/local/mysql/data/mysql-bin.{$STARTLOG..$...
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Remove all files in directory except last 20
I have question why is my cmd for "removing all files in directory except last 20" not working within cron but in command prompt yes.
* * * * * ls -1tr /home/testusr/test | head -n -20 | xargs -d '\...
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Centos 5.4 - ls command not showing files on ftp server
I have installed ftp and vsftpd on my CentOS 5.4 through yum install ftp and yum install vsftpd. I have also created one ftp user with adduser ftpuser command.
And here comes my problem.
[root@...
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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
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echo "Server101_IP=187.0.98.4" >> /etc/some_file
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I expect ...
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How to turn on ls -l headers? [closed]
How do I turn on the labels for ls -l?
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 2 2014 php_logging.log
The first is permissions but root root confuses me. One is the username of the owner ...
