In Arch Linux, if I do ls -l in /sbin, I can see that reboot, shutdown and poweroff are all symlinks to /usr/bin/systemctl. But issuing reboot, shutdown and systemctl commands obviously does not all have the same behaviour.
If you issue ls -all command some files or directories have the year and some have the time? Why do some show the year while others show the time? Is the time representative of the time the file was created?
Is it possible to ‘partition’ a directory listing – say in to blocks of some number, to perform different actions on each ‘range’?
With the ls command, is it possible to show only the files created after a specific date, hour…?
I’m running Arch Linux, and use ext4 filesystems.
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‘–format=single-column’
I like being able to name files and directories with an underscore prefix if it’s something I want to keep separate from other files and directories at the same level. On Windows and Mac, for example, prefixing a file with an underscore sorts it to the top, in front of files starting with an alphanumeric character.
I want to solve the problem ‘list the top 10 most recent files in the current directory over 20MB’.
I’m writing script is ksh. Need to find all directory names directly under the current directory which contain only files, not subdirectories.
I have an empty directory. I am using following command to view the contents of that directory. ls -lart The output I get is below. total 12 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 2 12:26 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 apx aim 4096 Nov 29 18:40 . I don’t have any files in this directory, then what … Read more