There's more to ls than just seeing a list of files and folders.

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...

Quick question for you all. How do you get a detailed listing of a directory with the ls command? I want to know the total number of files in a directory.<P>Thanks!

Getting started on the Linux command line might seem overwhelming at first, but the many commands you need to use will fall into place more quickly than you might imagine. If you are just getting ...