I recently went in for a job interview and the guy asked me what I knew about Unix. I told him not much since I haven't worked with it in a few years. He then asked me the following question: What Unix or Linux shell command will tell you the names of all files in the current directory, along with their owner, last modified date, and permissions? Since I went completely blank and didn't know the answer I went searching for it and can't seem to come up with anything. I found this forum and most seem pretty knowledgeable about the system. So if anyone has the answer can you please post it. I guarantee I won't forget it if ever asked that again.

ls -l

or ll (lowercase L)

give the "long" version of a file names with protections, size, file owner, and date

be aware that "ll" is specific to some os --- you might want to stick to "ls -l" ...