tldr/pages/common/ls.md

ls

List directory contents. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls.

• List files one per line:

ls -1

• List all files, including hidden files:

ls -a

• List all files, with trailing / added to directory names:

ls -F

• Long format list (permissions, ownership, size, and modification date) of all files:

ls -la

• Long format list with size displayed using human-readable units (KiB, MiB, GiB):

ls -lh

• Long format list sorted by size (descending) recursively:

ls -lSR

• Long format list of all files, sorted by modification date (oldest first):

ls -ltr

• Only list directories:

ls -d */