Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

The ls command

The ls command lists all of the files and directories that exist in the current working directory. So it's similar to the dir command in Windows machines; it just lists all of the files and directories that exist in the current directory:

ls

And, as we execute this command, the output for it lists all of the directories, such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, and Music:

Let's run ls with some options. We going to use ls and then use -l, and that will show us more information about the files. It's basically the same command that we ran before, but, as we can see in the following screenshot, we now get more information. We can ...