 Long file listing with ls --color=auto -l in Linux showing various modes, date formats, colors and appended indicators (executables and directories). | |
| Original author(s) | coreutils: Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Various open-source and commercial developers |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Multics, Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno, MSX-DOS |
| Type | Command |
| License | coreutils: GPLv3+ BusyBox: GPL-2.0-only Toybox: 0BSD Plan 9: MIT License |
In computing, ls is a command to list computer files and directories in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is specified by POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification.
It is available in the EFI shell,[1] as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities,[2] or as part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2.[3]
The numerical computing environments MATLAB and GNU Octave include an ls
function with similar functionality.[4][5]
In other environments, such as DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, similar functionality is provided by the dir command.
- ^ "EFI Shells and Scripting". Intel. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
- ^ "Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities". unxutils.sourceforge.net.
- ^ "MSX-DOS2 Tools User's Manual - MSX-DOS2 TOOLS ユーザーズマニュアル". April 1, 1993 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "List folder contents - MATLAB ls".
- ^ "Function Reference: Ls". Octave Forge.