I can use ls -ld */ to list all the directory entries in the current directory. Is there a similarly easy way to just list all the regular files in the current directory? I know I can use find
I know that “Everything is a file” means that even devices have their filename and path in Unix and Unix-like systems, and that this allows for common tools to be used on a variety of resources regardless of their nature. But I can’t contrast that to Windows, the only other OS I have worked with. I have read some articles about the concept, but I think they are somewhat uneasy to grasp for non-developers. A layman’s explanation is what people need!
Does the command line have a way to get a recommended list of programs used to open a particular file, based on the file type? For example, a .pdf file would have an open with... recommendation using the programs Evince and Document Viewer.
Is there a way to list a set of say, 30 random files from a directory using standard Linux commands? (in zsh)
I just renamed a log file to “foo.log.old”, and assumed that the application will start writing a new logfile at “foo.log”. I was surprised to discover that it tracked the logfile to its new name, and kept appending lines to “foo.log.old”.
My question is how directories are implemented? I can believe a data structure like a variable e.g. table, array or similar. Since UNIX is Open Source I can look in the source what the program does when it created a new directory. Can you tell me where to look or elaborate on the topic? That a directory “is” a file I could understand and is a directory really a file? I’m not sure that it is true that files are stored “in” files while still in way you could say the word file about nearly anything and I’m not sure what absolutely not is a file since you could call even a variable a file. For example a link is certainly not a file and a link is like a directory but then this violates that a directory is a file?
I was wondering if there are any tools to keep track of the access history of a file. I know of stat, but as far as I understand, it only returns information about the last time the file was accessed. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the … Read more
I’d like to know the equivalent of
How can I get the size of a file in a bash script?
I was changing file permissions and I noticed that some of the permissions
modes ended in @ as in [email protected], or a + as in drwxr-x---+. I’ve looked
at the man pages for chmod and chown, and searched around different help
forums, but I can’t find anything about what these symbols mean.