[Techtalk] ls display
Anne Wainwright
anotheranne at fables.co.za
Wed Oct 15 20:46:55 UTC 2008
Michelle, hi.
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:30:45 +0200
Michelle wrote:
|> Again me.. :-/
|>
|> If you want to show only the directories why not:
|>
|> ls -dArX */ .*/
To which I might reply 'why, indeed!'
Well I have played around and worked through that, but one might imagine that with all the options for ls that one alone would show just the directories. Still, why be simple ;)
I finally settled on
ls -dlrX */
as fitting my needs. (but ls -drX --width=1 */ is also nice!)
Frustratingly I tried to make it go with the -I option but could not figure out how to negate a pattern.
Interestingly my DEBIAN BIBLE by Steve Hunger shows '/' as an option of ls, but of course it doesn't work as an option. He doesn't show a '-' so is tricking the reader into using a simple pattern
Furtherly interestingly, the reason why this is only necessary in the home directory are still hidden. A simple ls -lrX does the job in a subdirectory even if showing all the other files above.
Even more interestingly neither man nor info mention the use of a pattern save with the --ignore option.
Michelle, very elegant if a trifle --verbose ;)
Thanks so much
Anne
--
so much to do, so little time :(
when I grow up I'll learn enough to actually help others on this group just like Michelle!
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