Reading and Sorting File and Directory Information by Reading Directories
John Schwartzman · Apress eBooks · 2025
The Linux Shell (or List Status or List Summary) utility is a Linux shell command with many options. It is used to list metadata (information) about the files and directories present on disk. The ls command is often aliased to include some optional arguments. To use the unaliased version of ls, proceed “ls” at the Linux command prompt with the backslash character and you’ll see something like this: suse-tw-z4@~/Development/asm_x86_64/directory/ll$ \ls bubblesortStr.asm files ll macro.inc runLL theExe fileInfo fileSize.asm ll.asm Makefile test.c fileInfo.asm fileTime.asm lstat maketest.sh testDir.asm fileInfo.c listTools.asm lstat.c quicksortStr.asm test.s