SYNOPSIS
vdir [OPTION]… [FILE]…
DESCRIPTION
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor –sort.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
-a, –all
do not ignore entries starting with .
-A, –almost-all
do not list implied . and ..
–author
with -l, print the author of each file
-b, –escape
print octal escapes for nongraphic characters
–block-size=SIZE
use SIZE-byte blocks
-B, –ignore-backups
do not list implied entries ending with ~
-c with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last modification of
file status information) with -l: show ctime and sort by name
otherwise: sort by ctime
-C list entries by columns
–color[=WHEN]
control whether color is used to distinguish file types. WHEN
may be `never’, `always’, or `auto’
-d, –directory
list directory entries instead of contents, and do not derefer-
ence symbolic links
-D, –dired
generate output designed for Emacs’ dired mode
-f do not sort, enable -aU, disable -ls –color
-F, –classify
append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries
–file-type
likewise, except do not append `*’
in a long listing, don’t print group names
-h, –human-readable
with -l, print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
–si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
-H, –dereference-command-line
follow symbolic links listed on the command line
–dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir
follow each command line symbolic link that points to a direc-
tory
–hide=PATTERN
do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN (overridden
by -a or -A)
–indicator-style=WORD
append indicator with style WORD to entry names: none (default),
slash (-p), file-type (–file-type), classify (-F)
-i, –inode
print the index number of each file
-I, –ignore=PATTERN
do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN
-k like –block-size=1K
-l use a long listing format
-L, –dereference
when showing file information for a symbolic link, show informa-
tion for the file the link references rather than for the link
itself
-m fill width with a comma separated list of entries
-n, –numeric-uid-gid
like -l, but list numeric user and group IDs
-N, –literal
print raw entry names (don’t treat e.g. control characters spe-
cially)
-o like -l, but do not list group information
-p, –indicator-style=slash
append / indicator to directories
-q, –hide-control-chars
reverse order while sorting
-R, –recursive
list subdirectories recursively
-s, –size
print the size of each file, in blocks
-S sort by file size
–sort=WORD
sort by WORD instead of name: none -U, extension -X, size -S,
time -t, version -v
–time=WORD
with -l, show time as WORD instead of modification time: atime
-u, access -u, use -u, ctime -c, or status -c; use specified
time as sort key if –sort=time
–time-style=STYLE
with -l, show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso,
locale, +FORMAT. FORMAT is interpreted like `date’; if FORMAT
is FORMAT1<newline>FORMAT2, FORMAT1 applies to non-recent files
and FORMAT2 to recent files; if STYLE is prefixed with `posix-’,
STYLE takes effect only outside the POSIX locale
-t sort by modification time
-T, –tabsize=COLS
assume tab stops at each COLS instead of 8
-u with -lt: sort by, and show, access time with -l: show access
time and sort by name otherwise: sort by access time
-U do not sort; list entries in directory order
-v sort by version
-w, –width=COLS
assume screen width instead of current value
-x list entries by lines instead of by columns
-X sort alphabetically by entry extension
-Z, –context
print any SELinux security context of each file
-1 list one file per line
–help display this help and exit
Exit status is 0 if OK, 1 if minor problems, 2 if serious trouble.
AUTHOR
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for vdir is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and vdir programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils ‘vdir invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 6.10 April 2008 VDIR(1)