Whenever it’s required to take a look at the contents of a directory on the command line in Linux, ls is the command that’s used. It lists the contents sorted in alphabetical order. While that’s the tool’s basic usage, it offers a plethora of features (in the form of command line options) that help you in several circumstances. In this tutorial, we will discuss the usage of some of these command line options through easy to understand examples.
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