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mnardone · 09-18-2009, 02:08 PM

When I type in ls -la I know that shows me the hidden files. If I want to few them all How would I do that. I tried ls -la|less. Can someone help me .

repo · 09-18-2009, 02:16 PM

What doesn't work ?

Code:

ls -la|less

will show the files page per page

GrapefruiTgirl · 09-18-2009, 02:28 PM

Maybe the OP just wants to see ONLY hidden files?

Code:

ls -la | egrep '\.[[:print:]]+\n' | less

slakmagik · 09-18-2009, 02:33 PM

repo: I'm taking a wild guess that he wants to view all his dot files in a pager, like 'less $(ls -A)', but that's not going to work well.

mnardone, if that is the case, maybe something like

less `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -exec file {} + | grep text | cut -d: -f1`

would show you all your top level dotfiles. But I can't imagine why you'd need to do this (viewing specific files or grepping general files for specific strings are more common things), so maybe try to restate so we can understand.

-- or maybe GrapefruiTgirl's got it.

mnardone · 09-19-2009, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slakmagik

repo: I'm taking a wild guess that he wants to view all his dot files in a pager, like 'less $(ls -A)', but that's not going to work well.

mnardone, if that is the case, maybe something like

less `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -exec file {} + | grep text | cut -d: -f1`

would show you all your top level dotfiles. But I can't imagine why you'd need to do this (viewing specific files or grepping general files for specific strings are more common things), so maybe try to restate so we can understand.

-- or maybe GrapefruiTgirl's got it.

That that works out great ?

slakmagik · 09-20-2009, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mnardone

That that works out great ?

Sorry, I don't understand.