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serenity/Base/usr/share/man/man1/listdir.md
Liav A fc0dbd2334 Utilities: Add the listdir utility
This utility uses the Core::DirIterator facility which in turn uses the
get_dir_entries syscall. Therefore, this utility lets us to view the
actual values for inode numbers, and entry type value for directory
entries.
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Name

lsdir - list directory entries

Synopsis

# lsdir [options...] [path...]

Description

This utility will list all directory entries of a given path (or list of paths) and print their inode number and file type (in either POSIX DT_* format or human readable).

The utility uses LibCore DirIterator object and restrict its functionality to the get_dir_entries syscall only, to get the raw values of each directory entry.

Options

  • -P, --posix-names: Show POSIX names for file types
  • -t, --total-entries-count: Print count of listed entries when traversing a directory

Arguments

  • path: Directory to list

Examples

# List directory entries of working directory
$ lsdir
# List directory entries of /proc directory 
$ lsdir /proc
# List directory entries of /proc directory with POSIX names for file types
$ lsdir -P /proc
# List directory entries of /proc directory and print in the end the count of traversed entries
$ lsdir -t /proc

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