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How to list the inodes of directories on a Linux machine.

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It is possible with ls to list only directories on a Linux system, but you can also list the inode values of the directories on a Linux system. The example below shows how this is done. The -i parameter shows the 📂 inodes value. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ ls -ldi — */ 150 drwxr-xr-x 2 john john … Read more

Interesting Linux commands that might be very useful.

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List only directories with the Linux command line. This lists a directory with all folders listed first, then return only the listing of folders in the directory. 4.4 Tue Oct 09 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ls –color=auto –group-directories-first -Hul | head -n `echo */ | wc -w` total 3866624 drwxrwxrwx+ 6 jason jason 4096 Oct 9 … Read more

How to list only symbolic links in a directory on a Linux filesystem.

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How to list all symlinks in a Linux directory To list only the symbolic links on a Linux filesystem, use ls and grep as shown below. This will easily do this for you. ubuntu ~/Documents $ ls -hula /lib | grep "\->" lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 4 02:48 cpp -> /etc/alternatives/cpp lrwxrwxrwx 1 … Read more

Misc UNIX and Linux tricks for the desktop user and administrator.

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Uptime. this is a useful command for finding out how long a Linux system has been running for. it also displays the load average over 1.5 and 15 minute intervals. deep-thought ~ # uptime 21:45:32 up 32 min, 3 users, load average: 1.88, 1.45, 1.08deep-thought ~ # uptime 21:45:32 up 32 min, 3 users, load … Read more

How to use color in the ls command to brighten up your directory listings.

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Below we see output of the ls command when listing a directory. The –color=auto parameter allows the use of color if your terminal supports it. And since everyone either uses Konsole or Gnome Terminal; this command will always work. I am using zsh at the moment; but this works with just about any shell. ls … Read more