info on ls

[Laura Eaves]

you mean output not read, right?
Usually ls -l prints the long format that you don't want. Sometimes the 
default is the long format -- that depends on your shell or your ls command.
But actually I usually use the following to print a nice concise list of 
names:

ls -CFb

This has the following effect:

-C (note capital C) outputs the file names in columns with names sorted down 
each column rather than across the rows.

-F (note capital F) I believe prints a suffix character after each name 
indicating what kind of file it is.  No suffix means a regular file; @ means 
a symbolic link; * means it is executable; / means it is a directory -- and 
there may be more.

-b (note lowercase b) prints all non printable characters in the name -- in 
case there are any.  I can't remember exactly how this worked.

Anyway, these are the switches I always used and found to be very useful in 
that they compact a lot of info into a relatively small space.

HTH!
--le

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Subject: info on ls


hi if this question is off topic or if i may get flamed for asking it, maybe
some one could give me the newbie blinux list info? i am wondering what
switch to use or the equivilent to make ls just read the file names, and not
the other info when doing the ls command? for example when i ftp, its just
too much info to liten to when trying to see what files are in a dir.
thanks.
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