tldr/pages/common/ls.md

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ls

List directory contents. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/ls-invocation.html.

  • 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):

ls -lS

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

ls -ltr