Contents hide 1) ls Command 2) Commands With Output In this tutorial we will see, ls Command With All Its Parameter In Linux ls Command ls command is one of the most frequently used command in Linux. I believe ls command is the first command you may use when you get into the command prompt of Linux Box. We use ls command daily and frequently even though we may not aware and never use all the ls with parameters available. In this article, we’ll be discussing basic ls command where we have tried to cover as many parameters as possible. Commands With Output How To List All Files And Directories ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls demo1 Documents geekstrick Pictures Templates Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos How To List All Files And Directories In Long Listing Format ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Jun 14 07:00 demo1 drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 80 Jun 14 06:38 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:41 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:41 Downloads -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Jun 14 07:00 geekstrick drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:41 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:41 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:41 Public drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:41 Templates drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:41 Videos Columns above indicate specific things: Column 1 indicates information regarding file permission. Column 2 indicates a number of links to the file. Column 3 & 4 indicates owner and group information. Column 5 indicates size of the file in bytes. Column 6 shows date and time on which file was recently modified. Column 7 shows the file fie or directory name. How To List All The Files Identifying Directories And Executable Files ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -f . Videos .xsession-errors Desktop .. Pictures .dbus .profile geekstrick Music .Xauthority .bashrc demo1 Documents .sudo_as_admin_successful .bash_logout .mozilla Public .cache .gconf Templates .local .ICEauthority Downloads .config How To List Recursive List Of Files And Directories ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -R .: demo1 Documents geekstrick Pictures Templates Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos ./Desktop: examples.desktop ubiquity.desktop ./Documents: ./Downloads: ./Music: ./Pictures: ./Public: ./Templates: ./Videos: How To Give The File Listing In Reverse Order ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -r Videos Public Music Downloads Desktop Templates Pictures geekstrick Documents demo1 How To Give Listing Of All Files And Directories In Multi Column Format ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -L demo1 Documents geekstrick Pictures Templates Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos How To List All The File Names Sorted By Last Modification time ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -t geekstrick Documents Music Public Videos demo1 Downloads Pictures Templates Desktop How To Display All Files Sorted According To The Extension ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -X demo1 Documents geekstrick Pictures Templates Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos How To Display All Files Sorted According To The Extension In Reverse Order ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -rX Videos Public Music Downloads Desktop Templates Pictures geekstrick Documents demo1 How To display All Files Sorted According To The Modification Time In Reverse ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -tr Desktop Templates Pictures Downloads demo1 Videos Public Music Documents geekstrick How To Display Detailed Listing Including Hidden Files Sorted In Reverse Order ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -lar total 24 -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3769 Jun 14 06:42 .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 51 Jun 14 06:41 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Jun 14 07:00 geekstrick drwx------ 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 Jun 14 06:44 .gconf -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Jun 14 07:00 demo1 . . . drwx------ 12 ubuntu ubuntu 260 Jun 14 06:43 .cache -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3771 Jun 14 06:38 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 220 Jun 14 06:38 .bash_logout drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Jun 14 06:38 .. drwxr-xr-x 16 ubuntu ubuntu 500 Jun 14 07:00 . How To List The Content Of Any Directory ? (e.x. geekstrick) ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls geekstrick geekstrick How To List All Files Name With One Source At A Time ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls |more demo1 Desktop Documents Downloads geekstrick Music Pictures Public Templates Videos How To List All Files Name With five Character ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls ????? demo1 Music: Note : Number Of question Mark are equals to number of character. How To List All File Name Starting With Uppercase Letter ‘D’ ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls D* Desktop: examples.desktop ubiquity.desktop Documents: Downloads: Note : You can search with any character lowercase or uppercase. If you want to search with the last character then type $ ls *a How To List All File Name Starting With Vowels ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls [a,e,i,o,u]* apple eagleView iphone operator ubuntu Note : It just search the block of array from the directory. You can set the Lowercase and uppercase latter to search because it is case sensitive. How To List All The File Name In Which First Character Is An Uppercase Letter And Second Character Is A Digit ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls [A-Z][0-9]* A324114 How To List All File Name Whose First Character Is Any Thing Or Then A Small Case Letter Vowel ? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls [^a,e,i,o,u]* A324114 demo1 geekstrick Desktop: examples.desktop ubiquity.desktop Documents: Downloads: Music: Pictures: Public: Templates: Videos: Share this:TwitterFacebookRedditLinkedInWhatsAppPrintTumblr Related Tags: Commands, Linux, ls-command, parameters