Files and folders in a directory with ls and dir - Programming One Liner 5 - 10

Contents of a directory

This programming one liner allows you to see what files and directories are available within a folder on your Linux web server. Upon invocation of this one liner, the contents of your current directory (pwd) will be displayed.

ls

If you believe your ls binary is corrupt (due to a server hack) or just to use an alternate command, you can use the following command on Linux server to get the same results. dir and ls are infact two different binaries.

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dir

The following one liner will let you view detailed information about files and directories within your present directory. This command is commonly termed as "long listing format".

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ls -l

Similarly, you can use the long listing option with dir command.

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dir -l

This command can be used to view the listings with color codings (if supported by your Linux web server).

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ls --color=tty

To make the color coded listings part of your profile, simply add the following lines to your .bash_profile directory. You can also execute this command to just color code the listings for your current session.

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alias ls='ls --color=tty'

Programming "One Liner" lookup terms:

ls dir

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