If you're going to delete a larger number of files based on some regular expression, use the regexp with
ls first. You will avoid surprises this way.
Use
ls -ltrh unless you have a good reason not to. It will show extra information, sort chronologically
ascending, and display file sizes in "human" format, such as 120M, or 50G.
"less is more" - if you're accustomed to using
more, switch to
less as soon as possible!
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B will go back one page
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Space will advance one page
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> will advance to the end
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< will go to the beginning
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Enter will advance one line
Want to capture fragments of a real-time log that's scrolling fast (perhaps to capture the log output of
a specific action that you wish to debug)?
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tail -f logfile > collector (Hit enter right before you're about to perform the action you want to log)
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(perform action)
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Ctrl-C
collector should now contain your log fragment, which you can inspect.