From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.102] helo=ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DVQua-0004MD-00 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 05:20:20 -0400 Received: from Charmin (cpe-024-074-098-208.carolina.res.rr.com [24.74.98.208]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id j4A9KFY4009624 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 05:20:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <019401c55541$77297cd0$6401a8c0@Charmin> From: "Laura Eaves" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 05:20:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: info on ls X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:20:20 -0000 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" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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. Blind Tech website: http://www.users.qwest.net/~drjann/epyd/ contact info can be found on website email list: EPYD Radio-subscribe@yahoogroups.com EPYD the only place to be! _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup