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A utility in Unix-like systems such as Linux used for listing files and directories.

A utility in Unix and Unix-like operating systems used for listing files and directories. It is analogous to the dir command used in DOS and Windows.

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Listing only directories using ls in Bash?

This command lists directories in the current path: ls -d */ What exactly does the pattern */ do? And how can we give the absolute path in the above command (e.g. ls -d /home/alice/Documents) for listing only directories in that path?
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How can I get a recursive full-path listing, one line per file?

How can I spit out a flat list of recursive one-per-line paths? For example, I just want a flat listing of files with their full…
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Count number of files within a directory in Linux?

To count the number of files in a directory, I typically use ls directory | wc -l But is there another command that doesn't use wc ?
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How can I generate a list of files with their absolute path in Linux?

I am writing a shell script that takes file paths as input. For this reason, I need to generate recursive file listings with full paths. For example, the file bar has the path: /home/ken/foo/bar but, as far as I can see, both ls and find only give…
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How do I list one filename per output line in Linux?

I'm using ls -a command to get the file names in a directory, but the output is in a single line. Like this: . .. .bash_history .ssh updater_error_log.txt I need a built-in alternative to get filenames, each on a new line, like this: . .. …
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List files recursively in Linux CLI with path relative to the current directory

This is similar to this question, but I want to include the path relative to the current directory in unix. If I do the following: ls -LR | grep .txt It doesn't include the full paths. For example, I have the following directory…
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How to list files in windows using command prompt (cmd). I've tried using ' ls ' as in Linux but it shows an error?

When I tried to use list ls on a Windows command prompt, the system doesn't recognize it. I already added C:\Windows\System32 in the path.
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Linux delete file with size 0

How do I delete a certain file in linux if its size is 0. I want to execute this in an crontab without any extra script. l filename.file | grep 5th-tab | not eq 0 | rm Something like this?
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How can I list (ls) the 5 last modified files in a directory?

I know ls -t will list all files by modified time. But how can I limit these results to only the last n files?
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Sort 'ls' output by name

Can you sort an ls listing by name?
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How to get a list of file names in different lines

I want to get a list of all the files in a directory, like with ls, so that each filename will be on a seperate line, without the extra details supplied by ls -l. I looked at ls --help and didn't find a solution. I tried doing ls -l | cut --fields=9…
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How to create ls in windows command prompt?

I want to use ls in windows command prompt and make it run the dir command. How can I do that?
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How do I assign ls to an array in Linux Bash?

array=${ls -d */} echo ${array[@]} I have three directories: ww ee qq. I want them in an array and then print the array.
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How to display only files from aws s3 ls command?

I am using AWS CLI to list the files in an AWS S3 bucket using the following command (aws s3 ls): aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --recursive --human-readable --summarize This command gives me the following output: 2013-09-02 21:37:53 10 Bytes…
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To show only file name without the entire directory path

ls /home/user/new/*.txt prints all txt files in that directory. However it prints the output as follows: [me@comp]$ ls /home/user/new/*.txt /home/user/new/file1.txt /home/user/new/file2.txt /home/user/new/file3.txt and so on. I want to run…
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