This one-liner will list all files in a directory by modification time, newest first.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:~/Pictures$ ls -thul |
Use it this way to list the top 20 files listed.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:/var/log$ ls -thul | head -n 20 total 6.9M -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 9.0K Jul 9 11:30 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85K Jul 9 11:26 Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 9 11:26 netserver.debug_1797 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14K Jul 9 11:26 boot.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32K Jul 8 11:14 faillog -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 11K Jul 8 11:10 auth.log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 8 11:09 apt -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 105K Jul 8 10:55 kern.log -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 392K Jul 8 10:55 syslog drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K Jul 8 10:55 upstart drwxr-x--- 2 mysql adm 4.0K Jul 8 10:55 mysql drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 8 10:55 cups -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85K Jul 8 10:43 Xorg.0.log.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 8 10:43 netserver.debug_1704 -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Jul 2 01:59 btmp -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 214K Jul 2 01:59 syslog.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 01:59 alternatives.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33K Jul 2 01:59 dpkg.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 112K Jul 2 01:52 wtmp.1 |
Use ls this way to list by file size.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:/var/log$ ls -S -luh | head -n 20 total 6.4M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 673K Sep 26 2014 vnetlib -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 544K Jun 29 08:41 kern.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root root 538K Apr 30 19:24 lynis.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 529K Sep 26 2014 vmware-installer -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 397K Jul 8 10:55 syslog.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 290K Apr 12 21:43 udev -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 286K Jun 16 23:42 lastlog -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 260K Jun 18 18:35 syslog.7.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 252K Jun 16 23:02 dpkg.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root root 200K Apr 30 18:56 lynis-report.dat -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 190K Jun 9 08:52 kern.log.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Dec 30 2014 dpkg.log.7.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 148K Jun 1 12:07 kern.log.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135K Jul 23 2014 dpkg.log.10.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 112K Jul 2 01:52 wtmp.1 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 109K Jun 26 01:55 syslog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 105K Jul 8 10:55 kern.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94K Mar 22 11:05 dpkg.log.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85K Jul 8 10:43 Xorg.0.log.old |
List numeric user and group uids this way.
ubuntu ~/Documents $ ls -n total 20276 -rwxrwxr-x 1 1000 1000 8510 May 3 23:24 a.out -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 1530 Mar 20 03:11 hashes.out -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 2496 Jun 18 03:33 hole.o drwxrwxr-x 6 1000 1000 4096 Mar 20 02:46 impacket-read-only -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 1118 May 3 23:24 my.c -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 995 Mar 18 03:19 nikto-pinterest-log.log drwxrwxr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Mar 20 02:37 python -rwxrwxr-x 1 1000 1000 7741 Mar 20 02:12 recipe-502268-1.py -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 65536 Mar 20 03:02 sam.save -rwxrwxr-x 1 1000 1000 64259 Mar 20 02:44 secretsdump.py -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 32768 Mar 20 03:03 security.save -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 20545536 Mar 20 03:03 system.save -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 7754 Jun 18 03:31 virii.S |