ls

• ls is used for navigation through the Linux File System

Output

type	links	owner	group	size	month	day	time	name
drwxrwxrwx	1	foo	root	4096	mar	22	2:52	Javascript

Listing

ls
ls -1 # multiline output
ls -l
ls -la
ls -laF
ls -ltr # Time reverse order
ls -al / > lsout.txt # List the root dir and saves in the text file
ls -la /etc/cron.* # List the content of each folder starting with cron.
ls -latrc # show modification time (instead of creation time)

Listing with wildcards

• Zero or more chars
• * - ls abc*
• A single char
• ? - ls ?bc*
• Pick of characters
• [] - ls *[aeiou]* # Either a, e, i, o, u
• Range of chars
• {} - touch abc{1..9}-xyz
• Escape character
• \
• Beginning of line
• ^ - ls -l | grep ^d # List directories
• End of line
• $