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<H3><A NAME="Heading15"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Listing Files and Directories with Ls and Dir</FONT></H3>
<P>You’ll use the <B>ls</B> command, short for <I>list</I>, quite often—probably every time you use Linux, as a matter of fact. You’ve already used <B>ls</B> in a discussion of permissions. The following command lists the contents of the current directory or a specified directory:</P>
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gilbert:/$ ls
bin/ dev/ home/ mnt/ sbin/ var/
boot/ dos/ lib/ proc/ tmp/ vmlinuz
cdrom/ etc/ lost+found root/ usr/
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<P>If you’re a UNIX user, this is probably not the version of <B>ls</B> you’re used to, especially if you try this command on your own Linux box. The <B>ls</B> version contained with Linux is actually the GNU version of <B>ls</B>. As such, it makes several improvements to the basic <B>ls</B> command found on other versions of UNIX. One improvement, which we can’t show you in the confines of a black-and-white text, is the addition of color to indicate directories (which will appear on your color monitor as blue) and special types of files. (Later in this section we’ll explain how to change these colors and what the colors mean.) Linux also uses slashes after the name to indicate directories.</P>
<P>In addition, <B>ls</B> (by default) sorts files and directories in ASCII order, in columns. That’s why the first column contains the directories beginning with <I>b</I> and <I>c</I>, followed by the rest of the alphabet. If there were directories that began with any capital letter, they’d be listed first; the directory <B>X/</B> would appear before <B>bin/</B>, because under ASCII uppercase letters precede lowercase letters.</P>
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<P><FONT SIZE="-1"><HR><B>NOTE: </B>The Bourne Again SHell, <B>bash</B>, also supports the <B>dir</B> command in a limited sense. The <B>dir</B> command does the same thing as the <B>ls -l</B> command, which will be explained later in this section. DOS users will be relieved to know that their familiar <B>dir</B> command can also be used under Linux.<HR></FONT>
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<P>You can use one of the many command-line options to the <B>ls</B> command. For example, if you use the <B>ls</B> command in your home directory, you’ll discover that there are no apparent files to be found:</P>
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<P>However, if you run the command with the <I>-a</I> option, you’ll see the following:</P>
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gilbert:~$ ls -a
./ .bash_history .kermrc .lessrc
../ .emacs .less .term/
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<P>The files beginning with the period (<B>.</B>) are called <I>hidden</I> files. Actually, they’re not so hidden as to be mysterious; they’re merely hidden when you use the <B>ls</B> command to search for files. The <I>-a</I> option tells the <B>ls</B> command to look for <I>all</I> files.</P>
<P>There are two other listings—<B>.</B> and <B>..</B>—that may be unfamiliar if you’re not a UNIX user. The single period (<B>.</B>) is merely another way to display the current directory, while the double period (<B>..</B>) is used to display the parent directory.</P>
<P>The <I>-l</I> (ell, not one) option to <B>ls</B> prints a long list of the directory’s contents:</P>
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<P>The <B>ls</B> command can also be used to determine the existence of a single file in short form:</P>
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gilbert:~$ ls data
data
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<P>or in long form:
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gilbert:~$ ls -l data
-rwx------ 1 kevinr group1 854 Apr 2 19:12 data
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<P>Table 4.5 summarizes the <B>ls</B> command’s important options.</P>
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<TABLE WIDTH="95%"><CAPTION><B>Table 4.5</B> A Summary of the Ls Command Options
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<TH WIDTH="25%" ALIGN="LEFT">Option
<TH WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="LEFT">Result
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<TD>-a
<TD>Lists all files, including hidden files.
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<TD>-A
<TD>Lists all files, except for the . and .. listings.
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<TD VALIGN="TOP">-c
<TD>Sorts files by the time they were last changed, rather than by the default ASCII order, beginning with the oldest file.
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<TD>-d
<TD>Lists only the name of a directory, not its contents.
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<TD>-l
<TD>Lists files and directories in long format.
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<TD>-r
<TD>Lists the contents in reverse order.
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<TD VALIGN="TOP">-t
<TD>Sorts files by the time they were last changed beginning with the newest file.
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<TD VALIGN="TOP">-x
<TD>Lists files and sorts them across the page instead of by columns.
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<P><FONT SIZE="-1"><HR><B>NOTE: </B>The <B>ls</B> command isn’t the only tool for viewing files and directories on a Linux system. If you’ve installed XFree86, there’s a file manager that can be used to graphically display the contents of your Linux system (see Chapter 5 for details). And there’s a command-line tool, the Midnight Commander, that works similarly to the Norton Commander (a once-popular MS-DOS application) (see Chapter 5 for details).<HR></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE="+1"><B>Changing the Ls Colors</B></FONT></P>
<P>Although we can’t show you, <B>ls</B> does indeed display different types of files in different colors. While you probably don’t want to change these colors, Linux gives you the ability to do so. (Indeed, Linux gives you the ability to do a great many things you’ll probably never bother to do, but that’s to the credit of the people who put Linux together.) The settings for these colors are stored in the file <B>/etc/DIR_COLORS</B>, and this file is used by all users. If you want to change these settings, you need to copy this file to your home directory, rename the file <B>.dir_colors</B> (making it a hidden file), and edit the listings in the file. As with many of the configuration files used with Linux, there’s enough comments in the default <B>/etc/DIR_COLORS</B> to guide you through any editing session.</P><P><BR></P>
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