This short little note is intended entirely for my own usage because believe it or not, I am somehow forever forgetting the switches needed to make the bog standard list (ls) function output something that I can easily ready.
ls -l -h -a
There. That will help me in the future I’m sure!
In case you are wondering which switches I have now employed, the -l indicates a long listing, in other words all files and folders are listing one below the other, with a complete set of attribute data next to the file name. The -h forces a human readable print out of the file size variable – in other words 1024 will become 1K. Finally the -a simply forces ls to show us all hidden files and folders.
Truly, I feel like an idiot for even recording this! (shame)
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