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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions List Files and Directory Post 302332789 by zaxxon on Friday 10th of July 2009 04:52:03 AM

07-10-2009

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I guess lathavim has a type - he wanted to write -lt instead of -ll.
Nevertheless you can add -r to switch between ascendind descending sort.

Code:

$> ls -la
insgesamt 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 isau users 4096 2009-07-10 10:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 isau users 4096 2009-05-19 10:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-03-02 10:05 aaalphaaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-07-10 10:37 aalphaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-03-02 10:01 alpha
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-03-02 10:04 bbetaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-03-02 10:00 beta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-07-10 10:37 bla
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-03-02 10:02 blub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-03-02 10:03 cccetaaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-07-10 10:36 infile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-03-02 10:06 lala
$> ls -lt *alpha*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-07-10 10:37 aalphaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-03-02 10:05 aaalphaaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-03-02 10:01 alpha
$> ls -ltr *alpha*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-03-02 10:01 alpha
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-03-02 10:05 aaalphaaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-07-10 10:37 aalphaa

The grep is not really needed - wildcards/metas are sufficient.

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NAME

     dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account.

SYNOPSIS

     dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword]

DESCRIPTION

     dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account.  Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root
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     A list of flags and their descriptions:

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	      Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer.

     -p password
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EXAMPLES

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     -dsenableroot -d
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