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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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sed can't read executable files when iterating in for loop

In a terminal shell, I am trying to loop over a set of Python files and perform find and replace with sed, e.g.: $ for f in `ls *.py`; do sed -i 's|foo|bar|g' $f; done; However, for some of the files (in particular just those Python scripts that…
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How to get contents of a given "path" using 'ls -l' command and Python

I am using python and i want to get listing of all of the files /directories (not nested) at a given path. Meaning i need exact equivalent out put of "ls -l" command using python. For e.g. at path /opt/test/ ls -l out put is shown below. -rw-r--r-- …
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Does ls -l print the file size in blocks or bytes?

I created a new file on a unix server. Now, ls -l prints the following: -rwxr-xr-x 1 mccorm14 student 49508 Oct 26 11:29 4th Does ls -l print the file size (49508) in blocks or bytes? If it is blocks, how do I convert it to bytes?
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How to get latest occurrence of a file and sort by timestamp using AWK in unix

Below is the sample content of the hb_20190930103450.log file <------some lines-------> [2019-09-30 19:55:59] [MERGE] : ####### BEGIN - claim_response - '2016-01-15' - ####### <------some lines---------> [2019-09-30 20:17:11]…
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Linux List files dfference - "ls" vs "ls /"

Never used Linux before and trying to understand the difference between ls and ls / "ls /" gets all my dir (and more, but not .files - hidden files) as we can see it in this extensive list of commands. What about the ls?
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How to list down the full paths to all files in multiple directories of a certain file format?

I am looking for a Bash solution to my dilemma here. I have directory project, and within that I have project/Batch1 project/Batch2 project/Batch3 and so on. Within each Batch folder, I have a mix of files but what I am interested in are files in…
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How to find filenames from ls in a file in unix

I am trying to find if files in a directory, output of ls, exists in a file. So I have a file called test.txt inside this file I have few filenames like, V1.txt,v2.txt, v3.txt. Now when I do ls I find list of files in the directory, I want to…
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unix concatenate list of files into on line

In a directory, there is several files such as: file1 file2 file3 Is there a simple way to concatenate those files to get one line (connected by "OR") in bash as follows: file1 OR file2 OR file3 Or do I need to write a script for it?
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Linux- ls If statement

I'm looking for an if statement. So when I run my script, it brings me a list of the backups with the date. The if statement is for, if there is no backup of the last 2 days echo "No recent backup". for when I ls -lrth: -rw-r--r--. 1 nfsnobody…
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Comparing two files based on size

I am facing difficulty in extracting the unique files of different sizes. Question: Inside a directory few files are present, suppose 2 files of 2 mb, 4 files of 4 mb and 3 files of 6 mb. Now, we need to run a script which will check all the files…
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How to list all the find -perm results?

I want to give a long list (with ls -l) of all the files in home directory that is writable by user, how can I combine find and ls -l?
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Stat not showing correct inode numbers

Trying to made my own ls command, using the stat structure to extract inode numbers of files, but continuous failure. here is my code: #include #include #include #include #include #include…
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How to expand ls -1 into a variable in Mac OSX terminal

Using the bash shell in the Mac OS X terminal, I want to put inside a variable all the filenames in the current directory, with one name per line (basically, the output of ls -1). However, if I do: var=$(ls -1) echo $var Variable 'var' contains…
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What are the column heading for this "-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 920788 Mar 28 2013 bash" when I do "ls -l" in the Ubuntu terminal

I executed the command "ls -l" in the ubuntu terminal, I understand the "ls -l" is the long listing in ubuntu, but I don't understand the columns for example: (This was the first line) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 920788 Mar 28 2013 bash How…
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combine ls with grep and regex

In the /usr/bin folder on ubuntu 14.10, I try to search for files that start with the letter x. My command is : ls | grep ^x It doesn't work (no result) but I don't know why since ls x* return 162 results. After inspection, I think it comes from…
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