15 Basic ‘ls’ Command Examples in Linux

I learned at least three things from this list, and I’ve been using ls for years.

15 Basic ‘ls’ Command Examples in Linux

The new things for me were:

  • ls -lh – human readable format on file sizes
  • ls -ltr – reverse output order, which is particularly useful when sorting by date
  • ls -lS – sort by file size
  • ls -R – Recursively list Sub-Directories (can be combined with S for size)

Note: so far, all of these commands work for me in OS/X as well.

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