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What's the difference between -> result=$(ls -l) (or) -> result=`ls -l` I'v run both commands and they both seem to do the same thing, is this true or is there something happening I'm not seeing? These two appear to do the same thing: result=$(ls -l) result=`ls -l` Started by Mint on Sunday, February 07, 2010, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Hi, Please check out http://nixcraft.com/shell-scripting/13288-loop-input-backticks-vs-differences.html#post19804 for a nice.... The $() syntax is a bit more permissive in what can go between the () as compared to what is accepted between `` . Very little.

Ls on a dotfile Ls on a dotfile My directory contains: $ ls -A .dotfile20091021 file20091020 file20091021 I want to list ALL files containing 20091021 in their name. If I run: $ ls -A *20091021* file20091021 If I run: $ ls -A .*20091021* .dotfile20091021 Can I get both... Started by fahdshariff on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Ubuntu spent tens of thousands .... For instance: user@tower:~ ls -lah | grep \.mozilla bashisms. Might help you sort that out in a portable way . ls -lah | grep \.foo .. You are relying on (whatever shell you are using) to do glob expansion .

Listing everything else than *{.tex, .aux} by ls How can you ls everything else the the files *{.tex, .aux} ? I run unsuccessfully ls -I".tex" Started by Masi on Sunday, August 30, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): ls | grep -v .tex\\\|.aux. ls -I*.tex -I*.aux or ls --hide=*.tex --hide=*.aux well, if we called this a "shell programming" question, I guess it could go here.

Listing everything else than *{.tex, .aux} by ls How can you ls everything else the the files *{.tex, .aux} ? I run unsuccessfully ls -I".tex" Started by Masi on Sunday, August 30, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): ls -I*.tex -I*.aux or ls --hide=*.tex --hide=*.aux you may use ls | grep -v *.tex | grep -v *.aux regards If you use bash and have the extglob shell option set (which is usually the case): ls.

Unix: ls, how to sort first directories then files etc. I would like to use ls command to first show direcotries and then files. I tried ls -la | sort -k 1 But I got a wrong order. Started by atricapilla on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 8 posts by 8 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): ls -laX will show .... Hope this will help! David. There is also the LS Wikipedia page that can give some good information. Here is a good web site, Unix LS Command, 15 best practices It's detailed and a lot of information is listed.

To see hardlinks by `ls` I run ln /a/A /b/B I would like to see at the folder a where the file A points to by ls . How can you see the actual hard link by ls ? Started by Masi on Saturday, July 25, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): ls -l The first column. You can use 'test A -ef B' from the shell to perform this check .

Ls sort output by date How can I sort the output of ls by last modified date? Started by nearly_lunchtime on Thursday, April 09, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Using -t : ls -t option: -t ls -t or (for reverse, most recent at bottom): ls -tr Pass the -t flag: $ ls -t.

Ls -m with more info? Hi, i need to store directory information in a way that i can parse as json. when i do ls -m it gives me comma separated values but no user/group/size info. bash-3.2$ ls -mp 100CANON/, 2009-11-27_1540.swf, 2009-11-27_1546.swf, 2009-11-27_1551.swf, 200... Started by Devrim on Saturday, January 09, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Hi, just combine the ls -l output with some other commands, like this ls -l | tr ' ' ',' | tr '\n.

What does LS stand for? as in Aerodesk 1.5i LS? Hi All, Just wondered what LS means? is it the lowest model 'limited spec' or something? or luxury series? pretty ambigious naming system if you ask me! regardless of the results, I'll stil refer to it as the luxury series! thanks As useful as a barber... Started by nordland071285 on Tuesday, January 03, 2012, 17 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at hondacivicforum Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at hondacivicforum): And in the case of Honda LS models are non; the 1.5i LS EK's/MB's are SOHC-VTEC for economy 6th Gen FAQ 7th Gen FAQ 1.7 CDTi FAQ HotHatch - My sites. If im right then its Luxury Sport, stuffed with extras .

Using grep and ls in ftp client? How could I use grep and ls in ftp client... I mean if I want to find some specific file I could use, ls -l | grep pattern thanks. jcyang. Started by jcyang on Saturday, October 24, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Foobar output to local-file: foobar [anpqy?]? y 500 Unknown command 227 Entering Passive Mode (62,149,140,... . Ftp> dir. Using binary mode to transfer files. With the usual Unix commandline interactive ftp, one approach is: Remote system type is UNIX .