DIR(1)

🦋 dir — the DIR(1) page, bestie-fied 🦋

okay so this is the General Commands Manual entry for dir, aka the whole DIR(1) situation. It lists directory contents, and by default it ignores files and directories starting with a . — yes, the sneaky hidden ones. no cap. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

dir — list directory contents. By default, ignore files and directories starting with a ..

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dir [OPTION]... [FILE]...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

List directory contents. Ignore files and directories starting with a . by default. That's the whole main-character job, and it ate. 🫶

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

okay bestie, here's the full option menu — every single flag, no skips, no "oops I forgot one" energy. 🧚

• --help — Print help information.
• --format — Set the display format.
• -C — Display the files in columns.
• -l, --long — Display detailed information.
• -x — List entries in rows instead of in columns.
• -T, --tabsize <COLS> — Assume tab stops at each COLS instead of 8.
• -m — List entries separated by commas.
• --zero — List entries separated by ASCII NUL characters.
• -D, --dired — generate output designed for Emacs' dired (Directory Editor) mode.
• --hyperlink[=<WHEN>] [default: never] — hyperlink file names WHEN.

Possible values:

• always
• auto
• never

• -1 — List one file per line.
• -o — Long format without group information. Identical to --format=long with --no-group.
• -g — Long format without owner information.
• -n, --numeric-uid-gid — -l with numeric UIDs and GIDs.
• --quoting-style — Set quoting style.

Possible values:

• literal
• locale
• shell
• shell-escape
• shell-always
• shell-escape-always
• clocale
• c
• escape

• -N, --literal — Use literal quoting style. Equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
• -b, --escape — Use escape quoting style. Equivalent to --quoting-style=escape.
• -Q, --quote-name — Use C quoting style. Equivalent to --quoting-style=c.
• -q, --hide-control-chars — Replace control characters with '?' if they are not escaped.
• --show-control-chars — Show control characters 'as is' if they are not escaped.
• --time <field> — Show time in <field>: access time (-u): atime, access, use; change time (-t): ctime, status. modification time: mtime, modification. birth time: birth, creation;
• -c — If the long listing format (e.g., -l, -o) is being used, print the status change time (the 'ctime' in the inode) instead of the modification time. When explicitly sorting by time (--sort=time or -t) or when not using a long listing format, sort according to the status change time.
• -u — If the long listing format (e.g., -l, -o) is being used, print the status access time instead of the modification time. When explicitly sorting by time (--sort=time or -t) or when not using a long listing format, sort according to the access time.
• --hide <PATTERN> — do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN (overridden by -a or -A).
• -I, --ignore <PATTERN> — do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN.
• -B, --ignore-backups — Ignore entries which end with ~.
• --sort <field> — Sort by <field>: name, none (-U), time (-t), size (-S), extension (-X) or width.

Possible values:

• name
• none
• time
• size
• version
• extension
• width

• -S — Sort by file size, largest first.
• -t — Sort by modification time (the 'mtime' in the inode), newest first.
• -v — Natural sort of (version) numbers in the filenames.
• -X — Sort alphabetically by entry extension.
• -U — Do not sort; list the files in whatever order they are stored in the directory. This is especially useful when listing very large directories, since not doing any sorting can be noticeably faster.
• -L, --dereference — When showing file information for a symbolic link, show information for the file the link references rather than the link itself.
• --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir — Do not follow symlinks except when they link to directories and are given as command line arguments.
• -H, --dereference-command-line — Do not follow symlinks except when given as command line arguments.
• -G, --no-group — Do not show group in long format.
• --author — Show author in long format. On the supported platforms, the author always matches the file owner.
• -a, --all — Do not ignore hidden files (files with names that start with .).
• -A, --almost-all — In a directory, do not ignore all file names that start with ., only ignore . and ...
• -f — List all files in directory order, unsorted. Equivalent to -aU. Disables --color unless explicitly specified.
• -d, --directory — Only list the names of directories, rather than listing directory contents. This will not follow symbolic links unless one of --dereference-command-line (-H), --dereference (-L), or --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir is specified.
• -h, --human-readable — Print human readable file sizes (e.g. 1K 234M 56G).
• -k, --kibibytes — default to 1024-byte blocks for file system usage; used only with -s and per directory totals.
• --si — Print human readable file sizes using powers of 1000 instead of 1024.
• --block-size <BLOCK_SIZE> — scale sizes by BLOCK_SIZE when printing them.
• -i, --inode — print the index number of each file.
• -r, --reverse — Reverse whatever the sorting method is e.g., list files in reverse alphabetical order, youngest first, smallest first, or whatever.
• -R, --recursive — List the contents of all directories recursively.
• -w, --width <COLS> — Assume that the terminal is COLS columns wide.
• -s, --size — print the allocated size of each file, in blocks.
• --color — Color output based on file type.

Possible values:

• always
• auto
• never

• --indicator-style — Append indicator with style WORD to entry names: none (default), slash (-p), file-type (--file-type), classify (-F).

Possible values:

• none
• slash
• file-type
• classify

• -F, --classify[=<when>] — Append a character to each file name indicating the file type. Also, for regular files that are executable, append '*'. The file type indicators are '/' for directories, '@' for symbolic links, '|' for FIFOs, '=' for sockets, '>' for doors, and nothing for regular files. when may be omitted, or one of:
  • none — Do not classify. This is the default.
  • auto — Only classify if standard output is a terminal.
  • always — Always classify. Specifying --classify and no when is equivalent to --classify=always. This will not follow symbolic links listed on the command line unless the --dereference-command-line (-H), --dereference (-L), or --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir options are specified.

Possible values:

• always
• auto
• never

• --file-type — Same as --classify, but do not append '*'.
• -p — Append / indicator to directories.
• --time-style <TIME_STYLE> — time/date format with -l; see TIME_STYLE below.
• --full-time — like -l --time-style=full-iso.
• -Z, --context — print any security context of each file.
• --group-directories-first — group directories before files; can be augmented with a --sort option, but any use of --sort=none (-U) disables grouping.
• -V, --version — Print version.

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🌈 EXTRA 🌈

The TIME_STYLE argument can be full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale or +FORMAT. FORMAT is interpreted like in date. Also the TIME_STYLE environment variable sets the default style to use. iykyk. 🦋

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👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — dated 2026-09-17, filed under DIR(1), and running on v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0. mwah 💋