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find script to sort subtree into most recent modification times?
What is the find script to sort a subtree into files with the most recent modification time? Also preserving their path name? I suspect it has something to do with find, ls, awk and sort. I haven't ...
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How do I make `ls` sort the same way Thunar sorts files?
The title is a summary of what I'm trying to achieve, but I'll give an example to illustrate what my problem is and how I've been trying to solve it. Example folder Let's say I've got a folder on a ...
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Display count of files group by year
I'm not Unix / Linux person so struggling with command / script which could give me count of files in a directory, and within it multiple sub-directories. I want to generate output similar to below ...
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Any operations with file system takes forever
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Unexpectedly for me all operations with the file system stopped working. I tried ls /, df and nautilus - all of this command takes forever to execute. What happened to my ...
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du and du -h give different results, and neither match ls -lh [duplicate]
I can paste a screenshot if preferred, but here is what I typed: me@server:~/dutest/test2$ du 12 . me@server:~/dutest/test2$ du -h 12K . me@server:~/dutest/test2$ du -b 4243 . me@server:~/dutest/...
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What is the "l" command in Linux?
I just accidentally typed l and hit enter. Then this happened. I'm not talking about ls -l just l. Why did this happen?
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"ls -l" but with output in more than one column? [duplicate]
Monitors tend to be more wide than tall. When there's hundreds of files in a folder, ls -l and ls -l | more will only show you me maybe 100 files at a time, due to the lack of vertical space on the ...
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Why isn't `which ls | file` working?
I would like to use the result of which ls and see the file type using file. However, when I type in which ls | file it doesn't work. When I try to do file < which ls, that doesn't work either. Any ...
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How to set file permission to 777 using umask [duplicate]
It is true that i may not have understood how umask calculations work. This query is just for a test case (my learning). My intention is that my process should generate a file pdf file1.pdf with full ...
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Weird LS output on WSL2
Using ls or exa I get a weird output on windows subsystem for linux : Can someone point out what's wrong? I have no funny aliases here. Just running ls.
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meaning of file type c in ls -l command [duplicate]
I am wondering what the type c is in the ls command. I was following the symlinks at /dev/stdin and ended up with /dev/pts/0 $ ls -l /dev/pts/0 crw--w---- 1 blue tty 136, 0 Apr 8 21:50 /dev/pts/0 I ...
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Get a list of files (in the way similar to `ls`) on website/webpage before choosing which to download
Let's say I'm on a webpage on which there are several hyperlinks to pdf documents. I want to download those pdf. Is there a way to get a list of those documents (in the ls way) which then allows to ...
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ls -F: where is the official Unix/Linux complete list of the indicator entries types?
About ls -F in the man ls for -F does mention about: -F, --classify append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries I read the following: What do the symbols displayed by ls -F mean? 14. How to ...
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How to open the n most recently modified files in less/vim?
How can I open all and only the n (e.g. 5) most recently modified files in a directory in less or vim? I know I can use ls -t to sort the output from most recent to oldest. So my intuition would be to ...
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Bash ls not sorting correctly?
I have a collection of pdfs in a folder. If I do a simple ls it returns this: 'The Amazing Spider Man 2018 - Ch Issue - 10.pdf' 'The Amazing Spider Man 2018 - Ch Issue - 32.pdf' 'The ...
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