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    [–] debil@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago
    ls -latr
    

    To see where's the most recent shit cause that's what I'm interested in.

    alias dir="ls"

    [–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Barbarians.

    ls -la, for civilized people.

    [–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] laurathepluralized@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

    -Ahl here! Human-readable sizes and get rid of . and ..!

    edit: format code so ..! doesn't look funny :D

    [–] blx@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

    That's what we call lla here at ~

    I like ls -Ap, the -p option is convenient, it puts a / at the end of names if they're directories. -A is like -a but doesn't show . and ..

    -l is sometimes useful, but a bit cluttered and less readable (at least to me, maybe it wouldn't be if I were used to using it)

    [–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 19 hours ago

    Do you mean putting the l before the a, or just the l and a flags in general?

    [–] kubica@fedia.io 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Maybe an alternative way:

    Pic A - Normal image

    Pic B - Same place illuminated with ultraviolet light

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

    yeah that would make more sense

    [–] dan69@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

    ls -ha.. is Linux laughing at my mess..???

    [–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

    Showing what's in the cupboards & drawers is more like

    ls -R

    [–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    I'm an ls -alh guy, myself.

    [–] thaklor@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

    Human-readable? What, are you some kind of human?

    [–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 28 points 1 day ago
    [–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] carl_the_grackle@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    ll so you don't even have to move your finger

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

    but if your hand is already on the keyboard, it's faster to type la than ll since you can move two hands faster than one (if they're doing the same movement, since with one hand you'd need to do the movement, reset and do it again)

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

    But I have 10 of those to type with?

    [–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago

    PS1=$(ls -a)

    [–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    Depends on the distro how that alias is defined (if it is defined)...

    [–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    That is true, but I would define standard practice like this: ls -l = ll And ls -la = la

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

    Yeah, fair enough.

    [–] padraig@caint.ie 9 points 1 day ago

    speed through the house with ncdu

    [–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 10 points 1 day ago

    "So that's where all my stuff went!"

    [–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Lulz, I tried that just to see the results. Either the terminal knows to not go crazy, or this fresh install is small enough to not take more than 5 seconds.

    And whatmade tool might tell you how all this garbage appeared here if you forgot.

    man i just figured out DOS in the 80s i'm slow okay

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    Wait till they try ls -laz

    [–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago
    [–] yogsototh@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

    s/ls/ls -1/