I accidentally typed l instead of ls today and found that the command still printed a list of the files in my current directory. Trying l --help brings up the help file for ls suggesting that l is ...

Dec 30, 2019 · The command ls defaults to ls .: List all entries in the current directory. The command ls * means 'run ls on the expansion of the * shell pattern' The * pattern is processed by the shell, and …

Jul 19, 2018 · In my current directory, I execute the command: ls -1 and it gives a list of the current directory contents. In the same directory, I repeat the command: ls and it gives me the same result, …

155 My ls sorts by name by default. man ls states: List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.

Most likely they are aliased to something already existing. AFAIK, there is no la or l commands. Try \la and \l to bypass possible aliases.

Is it possible to use ls in Unix to list the total size of a sub-directory and all its contents as opposed to the usual 4K that (I assume) is just the directory file itself? total 12K drwxrwxr-x ...

Feb 19, 2019 · In this case, when you execute ls -d */, what happens is that the shell expands */ to a list of subdirectories (which is already exactly what you want), passes that list as arguments to ls -d, …

Feb 20, 2012 · I want to use ls in windows command prompt and make it run the dir command. How can I do that?

Jul 11, 2013 · I know that it outputs the "long" version but what do each of the sections mean? On my mac, when I type in ls -l /Users I get total 0 drwxr-xr-x+ 33 MaxHarris staff 1122 Jul 1 14:06 Max...

Mar 8, 2011 · Is it possible to get the time when file was opened last time and sort all files in a directory by those times?