Re: The ls command

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 10:44 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:

On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 17:33 +0000, Michael wrote:

The command 

ls -- *.pdf

has been run and a very large number of PDF files has been listed.

It is very difficult to spot any strangely named PDF files.

Pipe into less

ls -- *.pdf | less

Then you can scan at your leisure and search for stuff.

Maybe sort it first

ls -- *pdf | sort | less