info on ls

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yes i ment output sorry. but thanks for the help.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: info on ls


| 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
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "EPYD Productions" <epyd2 at hotmail.com>
| To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
| Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:38 AM
| 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.
| Blind Tech
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