‘+’ and ‘s’ in permission strings
If the ls -l command gives me a permission string like
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Why size reporting for directories is different than other files?
I was wondering why an empty directory occupied 4096 bytes of space and I have seen this question. It is stated that space is allocated in blocks and hence, the size of a new directory is 4096 bytes.
ls -l –group-directories-first (act on symlinks as well)
ls option --group-directories-first causes directories to be listed on the top, which makes the output of ls nice and clean:
Full file date (without GNU utilities)
I am trying to obtain the full date (created or modified) of a particular file for passing to another program. I have tried variations of options with the ls command but none provide a full date for files less than 6 months old and I have limit usage of the options. When I try certain options I have seen trying to research this I get the following message:
What is the meaning of ls -d?
I entered the man page of ls, the entry for the -d option is as follows:
Fine-tune LS_COLORS for directory suffixes?
I’m fine customizing most settings in LS_COLORS. I don’t need help customizing the colors for different file suffixes. What I would like to do is configure special colors for certain directories, based on their suffix.
Number of lines outputted by ls
When ls is called, it outputs all the files/directories in the current directory, attempting to fit as many as possible on each line. Why is it that when passed to wc -l, it outputs the number of files? How does it decide how many lines to output its results in?
The number of links for a folder doesn’t reflect the real status?
A question for ls command.
last time file opened
Is it possible to get the time when file was opened last time and sort all files in a directory by those times?
Working of rm/ls with [0-9]
I am learning the shell commands and came across the short tags eg.[0-9],[[:digit:]] etc.. As a proof of concept i tried deleting all the files with the rm command(i know its not a good practise but i am trying to understand how things work),like this