Basic UNIX commands

The list of commands, used in UNIX shell (sh, bash, etc).

List

ls

Just listing file in current dirrectory

~% ls Mail codes mail mbox vk centericq.core dead.letter mails public_html zed

Options

Note, that options can be combined. ls <dir> Listing files in <dir> directory.

~% ls vk album.pl graffiti.pl img

ls -a Listing ALL files (include hidden).

~% ls -a . .emacs.d .ssh codes vk .. .irssi .subversion dead.letter zed .bash_history .libetpan .vifm mail .bash_profile .links .zshrc mails .elinks .mc Mail mbox .elm .pinerc centericq.core public_html

ls -l Showing items in nice list format.

~% ls -l total 4292 drwx------ 2 dany users 512 Apr 3 2007 Mail -rw------- 1 dany users 2138112 Oct 29 2007 centericq.core drwxr-xr-x 3 dany users 512 Sep 1 17:54 codes -rw------- 1 dany users 1 May 2 2007 dead.letter drwx------ 2 dany users 512 Apr 9 2007 mail drwxr-xr-x 2 dany users 512 Apr 2 2007 mails -rw------- 1 dany users 16926 Oct 29 2007 mbox drwxrwxrwx 5 dany users 512 Sep 10 16:20 public_html drwxr-xr-x 3 dany users 512 Jun 26 20:14 vk -rwxrwxrwx 1 dany users 1408 Jan 26 1999 zed

See also

Batch Unix_operands