I’m fairly certain that the ls command is for Linux, not Windows (I’m assuming you’re using Windows as you referred to cmd, which is the command line for the Windows OS). You should use dir instead, which is the Windows equivalent of ls. Edit (since this post seems to be getting so many views 🙂 … Read more
To do that you need xargs: which studio | xargs ls -l From man xargs: xargs – build and execute command lines from standard input To fully understand how pipes work, you can read What is a simple explanation for how pipes work in BASH?: A Unix pipe connects the STDOUT (standard output) file descriptor … Read more
What about this trick… ls -lrt -d -1 $PWD/{*,.*} OR ls -lrt -d -1 $PWD/* I think this has problems with empty directories but if another poster has a tweak I’ll update my answer. Also, you may already know this but this is probably be a good candidate for an alias given it’s lengthiness. [update] … Read more
You can pipe it into head: ls -l -t | head -3 Will give you top 3 lines (2 files and the total). This will just give you the first 2 lines of files, skipping the size line: ls -l -t | tail -n +2 | head -2 tail strips the first line, then head … Read more
This will locate all files with the given extensions in the current working directory and all subdirectories: dir *.cpp *.h *.java /b/s See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755121.aspx for more info on using dir.
Right click on “My Computer” -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables Add a new environment variable, called CYGWIN_HOME and set its value to C:\cygwin Edit the PATH environment variable and add %CYGWIN_HOME%\bin to it (usually separated by a ‘;’). Just click okay, exit any command prompts or bash shells (over cygwin) you may have … Read more
depth=1 tar –exclude=”*/*” -tf file.tar depth=2 tar –exclude=”*/*/*” -tf file.tar
Use egrep-style extended pattern matching. ls !(*.jar) This is available starting with bash-2.02-alpha1. Must first be enabled with shopt -s extglob As of bash-4.1-alpha there is a config option to enable this by default.
Yes: !dir The ! tells the client to run a local shell command. Tested this using both the Windows and Fedora default ftp clients. Note that the actual command may depend upon your OS, for example !ls may be necessary on other versions of Unix/Linux. For what it’s worth, the ! command is listed in … Read more
Unfortunately your quest won’t be possible in general, as there are only 3 distinct time values stored for each of your files as defined by the POSIX standard (see Base Definitions section 4.8 File Times Update) Each file has three distinct associated timestamps: the time of last data access, the time of last data modification, … Read more