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nobody nobody 512 Dec 20 23:58 analog/ drwxr-xr-x 5 nobody nobody 512 Dec 21 00:00 ann/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 512 Dec 21 00:02 annimages/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 512 Apr 5 20:21 antonio/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 21 00:01 apixbc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 1536 Apr 5 20:21 applewhite/ drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 512 Dec 3 06:27 applicatns/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 1536 Apr 5 21:59 apps/ drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 512 Feb 23 2000 archive/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 512 Apr 5 20:08 ark/ drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 512 Jan 15 2001 austen/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 512 Dec 21 00:03 austin/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 1024 Dec 21 00:02 barney/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 512 Mar 30 22:11 bastrop/ drwxr-xr-x 6 nobody nobody 512 Mar 30 21:57 bayless/ drwxr-xr-x 11 nobody nobody 1024 Dec 20 23:59 bayou/ drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 512 Jan 2 13:50 bcpix/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 512 Dec 21 00:03 beatles/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 512 Mar 30 21:57 birthdays/ drwxr-xr-x 2 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The equivalent of "dir" in DOS, just better. ls -ltr will list files with long description, according to timestamp , recursive . In other words list files, newest file last. If files scroll out of buffer, do ls -ltr |more. You can list by filetype, name etc. using wildcards. ls *.html show only files with extension .html If you want to list only directories, not files, do for instance: ls -latr |grep ^d See "grep" below. This search term filter out only lines starting with a "d" When you list the long format, that can only be directories: drwxrwxr-x 6 dark dark 4096 Apr 29 23:49 .netscape ls -la will show long description of all files, also those starting with a dot. Apart from the directory pointers . and .. there's the rc-files and other configuration files comparable to a kind of ini-files, reflecting user settings for various sessions and applications.

Could anyone kindly tell me how to let "ls -l" output the file details sorted by file size? Or any shell tools or scripts are also welcome. If you have the GNU vesion of ls, use the -S option. Otherwise, pipe it through sort: ls -l | sort -n +4 Sort by the 5th field, numeric, descending: ls -l |sort -k5rn,5

ls -l | sort -k 5n or better still, if u have gnu ls: ls -Slr