A single listing of all files in the directory xyz. Read the man page for ls. man ls That looks like a pipe on end of the second line, also the escape character "\" is out of place. Did you cut this out of a script that you are trying to understand?
Originally posted by meeran1978 cd /abc/xyz
\ls -1l
And that's not a pipe, it's a number 1.
From the man page for ls:
So the OP intends to list all the details of each file and only one file per line.... seems redundant to me. By default, the long-listing format lists one file per line with all the details on the rest of the line.
google, what looks like a pipe is really the letter "L". I copied and pasted the line into notepad and it becomes obvious. It had me confused for a while.
Gotcha! Well, there really isnt much point to using both -1 option and the -l option at teh same time as the output is the same as if you simply typed ls -l (at least it is on the HP machine I use).