An Alias to List Recently Changed Files
Looking for a recently changed file? Not sure of the name? Trying to do this in a directory with lots of files? Try the lr alias:
alias lr "ls -lagFqt \!* | head"
The alias takes advantage of the -t option () to ls, so that recent files can float to the top of the listing. head () shows just the first ten lines.
A simple lr in my home directory gives me:
bermuda:home/dansmith :-)lrtotal 1616 -rw------- 1 dansmith staff 445092 Oct 7 20:11 .mush256 -rw-r--r-- 1 dansmith staff 1762 Oct 7 20:11 .history drwxr-xr-x 30 dansmith staff 1024 Oct 7 12:59 text/ -rw------- 1 dansmith staff 201389 Oct 7 12:42 .record drwxr-xr-x 31 dansmith staff 1024 Oct 4 09:41 src/ -rw-r--r-- 1 dansmith staff 4284 Oct 4 09:02 .mushrc ...
You can also give a wildcarded pattern, in order to narrow the search. For example, here's the command to show me the dot files that have changed lately:
.??* |
bermuda:home/dansmith :-) |
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- DS