Editing Solaris 10 Associate (section)

==== ls command examples ====

View non-hidden contents of directory:
<pre>$ ls /export/home/paul
dir1           dir2           local.cshrc    local.profile  symbolic_file
dir1_files     dir3           local.login    script
$</pre>

View long listing of non-hidden contents of directory:
<pre>$ ls -l /export/home/paul
total 14
drwxr-xr-x   3 paul     cops         512 May  5 12:36 dir1
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         180 May  5 15:47 dir1_files
drwxr-xr-x   2 paul     cops         512 May  5 12:34 dir2
drwxr-xr-x   2 paul     cops         512 May  5 12:34 dir3
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         136 May  4 09:51 local.cshrc
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         157 May  4 09:51 local.login
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         174 May  4 09:51 local.profile
-rwxr--r--   1 paul     cops           0 May  5 12:56 script
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops           0 May  5 12:34 symbolic_file
$</pre>

View long listing of all contents of directory:
<pre>$ ls -la /export/home/paul
total 22
drwxr-xr-x   5 paul     cops         512 May  6 09:17 .
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root         512 May  6 09:15 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         144 May  6 09:15 .profile
-rw-------   1 paul     cops          14 May  6 09:15 .sh_history
drwxr-xr-x   3 paul     cops         512 May  5 12:36 dir1
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         180 May  5 15:47 dir1_files
drwxr-xr-x   2 paul     cops         512 May  5 12:34 dir2
drwxr-xr-x   2 paul     cops         512 May  5 12:34 dir3
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         136 May  4 09:51 local.cshrc
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         157 May  4 09:51 local.login
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops         174 May  4 09:51 local.profile
-rwxr--r--   1 paul     cops           0 May  5 12:56 script
-rw-r--r--   1 paul     cops           0 May  5 12:34 symbolic_file
$</pre>


Example using -d on directory, -d is useful if you want to only see directories specified as argument (versus contents of directory), more useful if combined with -l option:
<pre>$ ls -d /export/home/paul
/export/home/paul
$ ls /export/home/paul
dir1           dir2           local.cshrc    local.profile  symbolic_file
dir1_files     dir3           local.login    script
$</pre>

Example using -d with -l option together in addition to using two arguments with one ls command:
<pre>$ ls -ld /export/home/paul
drwxr-xr-x   5 paul     cops         512 May  6 09:17 /export/home/paul
$</pre>

Example of recursively listing subdirectories & contents:
<pre>$ ls -R /export/home/paul
/export/home/paul:
dir1           dir2           local.cshrc    local.profile  symbolic_file
dir1_files     dir3           local.login    script

/export/home/paul/dir1:
file1    file2    file3    subdir1

/export/home/paul/dir1/subdir1:
subfile1  subfile2  subfile3

/export/home/paul/dir2:

/export/home/paul/dir3:
$</pre>

'''The -F option shows file types'''

Example using -F option:
<pre>$ ls -F /export/home/paul
dir1/           dir2/           local.cshrc     local.profile   symbolic_file@
dir1_files      dir3/           local.login     script*
$</pre>

Example using -FR options together:
<pre>$ ls -FR /export/home/paul
/export/home/paul:
dir1/           dir2/           local.cshrc     local.profile   symbolic_file@
dir1_files      dir3/           local.login     script*

/export/home/paul/dir1:
file1     file2     file3     subdir1/

/export/home/paul/dir1/subdir1:
subfile1   subfile2   subfile3

/export/home/paul/dir2:

/export/home/paul/dir3:
$</pre>