[Novalug] question about ls

[Nino R. Pereira]

On 01/16/2012 09:58 AM, Peter Larsen wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 08:55 -0500, Nino R. Pereira wrote:
>> Thanks to all who replied.
>>
>> I'm sorry to say that I mislead you. My command was not simply
>>
>> ls -l
>>
>> but it was
>>
>> ls -l cryst*
> See - I knew something wasn't right :)
yes ;-(
>
> ls -dl cryst*
>
this actually gives only the directory, not what's in it.

When I try to see if 'ls' has an option like tree, -L, I look
in the man pages, but because these are so long I do
man ls > temp

which gives me a file I want to search for '-L' with grep.
But, this doesn't work because in the command

cat temp | grep -L

grep thinks '-L' is an option, and when I do

cat temp | grep '-L'   (or even 'grep -i '-L')

it isn't any better.

How do I get ls to tell me

crystals:
accounting  orders  quartz  technical

Nino



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