ls command

[Lori]

Can someone please explain to me how to use the ls command?  I'm following the tutorial at http://www.wernerlab.org/teaching/qiime/overview and on the first page it briefly gives an example of 

ls -lh

I can get that one to work, but I don't know how to view other directories using the ls command.  Can someone please explain this to me, and perhaps give me some other examples?  Thank you!

[Will Van Treuren]

Hi Lori,

There are two ways to view the contents of other directories with ls.

You can change directories with cd to the directory of interest and then call ls there.

example: 

cd path/to/directory/you/want/

ls

or

You can call ls path/to/directory/you/want

example: ls path/to/directory/you/want/

If you want more information on ls, you can (in another terminal) type:

man ls

Finally you may find this link useful (courtesy of Yoshiki):

http://www.linuxcommand.org/lts0030.php#ls

Hope this helps,

Will 

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