{"id":290,"date":"2008-12-19T20:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T03:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-12-21T17:39:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T00:39:17","slug":"list-only-hidden-files-with-ls-command-in-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/geekspeek\/list-only-hidden-files-with-ls-command-in-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"List only hidden files with “ls” command in Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking for a way to show only hidden files (files with names preceded by a period) when I use the ls command, and I came across the solution today. Of course, we all know how to show hidden files like this:<\/p>\n

\n
CODE:<\/div>\n

“ls -a” or
\n“ls -all”\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BUT WAIT! Can’t we show ONLY hidden files? Well, my friend, if that’s what you’re looking for, then you’ve come to the right place. Let me show you how:<\/p>\n

\n
CODE:<\/div>\n

ls -ld .??*\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Yep, it appears that it’s really that simple. Hope this helps someone else who’s needing to find two simple hidden files in a folder with over 1,900 high quality digital images of a candy factory. Or something like that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking for a way to show only hidden files (files with names preceded by a period) when I use the ls command, and I came across the solution today. Of course, we all know how to show hidden files like this: CODE: “ls -a” or “ls -all” BUT WAIT! Can’t we show ONLY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20FV9-4G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}