From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: info on ls
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 05:20:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <019401c55541$77297cd0$6401a8c0@Charmin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY107-DAV129E313C488D3A5E25EDEBF51F0@phx.gbl>
you mean output not read, right?
Usually ls -l prints the long format that you don't want. Sometimes the
default is the long format -- that depends on your shell or your ls command.
But actually I usually use the following to print a nice concise list of
names:
ls -CFb
This has the following effect:
-C (note capital C) outputs the file names in columns with names sorted down
each column rather than across the rows.
-F (note capital F) I believe prints a suffix character after each name
indicating what kind of file it is. No suffix means a regular file; @ means
a symbolic link; * means it is executable; / means it is a directory -- and
there may be more.
-b (note lowercase b) prints all non printable characters in the name -- in
case there are any. I can't remember exactly how this worked.
Anyway, these are the switches I always used and found to be very useful in
that they compact a lot of info into a relatively small space.
HTH!
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "EPYD Productions" <epyd2@hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:38 AM
Subject: info on ls
hi if this question is off topic or if i may get flamed for asking it, maybe
some one could give me the newbie blinux list info? i am wondering what
switch to use or the equivilent to make ls just read the file names, and not
the other info when doing the ls command? for example when i ftp, its just
too much info to liten to when trying to see what files are in a dir.
thanks.
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