If you’ve tried to use ls -lh to get the size of a directory and it’s content, you’ll have found that it doesn’t give you what you were hoping for. One method to get the size of a directory, including files, sub-directories and their files is to use du (disk Continue Reading
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SnipIT No 7: Change colour when using “ls”
SnipIT is a series of short blogs containing useful information in an easily digestible format. Listing the files and directories in a PuTTY session when connected to Red Hat recently, I realised how bad the contrast is between the default dark blue on black. To change this to something more Continue Reading
SnipIT No 1: Checking Permissions in Solaris
SnipIT is a series of short blogs containing useful information in an easily digestible format. First up; How to check permissions of files and folders in Solaris. This may seem obvious to some but to new-comers it should prove useful. File Permissions ls -al The a option lists all the Continue Reading