VDIR(1)

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✨ NAME ✨

vdir — list directory contents. ignore files and directories starting with a . by default.

also, real talk: mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. iykyk.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vdir [OPTION]... [FILE]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

list directory contents, bestie. ignore files and directories starting with a . by default.

and yes, it bears repeating: mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. no cap.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --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>] — hyperlink file names WHEN. [default: never]
  • 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.

🌈 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.

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

this page came from v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 and is dated 2026-09-17 — bye bestie, go list something iconic 💅✨