 So again, we're going through a lot of basics here on the Linux shell. I'm using the Z shell you're supposed to be very quick tutorials, so I'm trying to keep them short and This is one that Is gonna be very useful Probably one that I probably should have shown a little bit earlier But we want to be able to view all the files and folders in your current directory Now if you're coming from a Windows environment, you might think DIR which Actually works on my system, but on a lot of Linux systems won't work. That's not the normal Linux command for for viewing files, but you can install that program or you could also link it to the actual command Which the actual command is LS So by default you can see it looks a little different than the DIR command by default It just gives you a list of the files and if your system set up to have color it will List out the files and colors you can see different types that like in my case folders are blue It looks like images and videos are pink and then regular files are green That's very helpful and then Yeah, so color coding is nice and That's just the basic view, but we want let's say we want more information on these Files I can add in different arguments to this command so I can go LS I can do dash L, which gives me a list view which is a little more like the DIR command It tells me you know the permissions about this file who can read it write it and execute it What user and group is in it created it or owns it The file size you can also see the date that it was last modified and then the name of the file now you'll notice right here that The file size is a little hard to read Let's put it in a little bit easier way to read by running the same command But with the L We're going to add to it H and I'll hit enter and you can see that the H stands for human readable Which has now changed it from bytes into kilobytes and megabytes and if need be gigabytes So it's a less accurate number. So like this is 11 megabytes. I'm sure it's not exactly 11 megabytes But it gives you a little more I easier to read idea on how big the files are also the top here It tells you for this folder the total File size now that doesn't include Subdirectories which may have a bit more in there. We'll look at a command for that in a future video another thing that you may want to look at is hidden files If you want to view hidden files, you'll want to add the aid of that that says all files And you can see that now there's a few hidden files which are highlighted here That weren't shown before They're now being shown and that a just means all and you can use a combination of these So I can use lna and that will list all in a list form with the Files size in the non-human readable. I can do a with I don't think that's really gonna help because without the L It's not going to show the file size But if I just a dash a it will show these hidden files here Which without the a you can see that those files are missing So that's it That's a quick look at the list command if you man ls It will give you a full list of commands here. There are many other Commands, little me many other options switches for it So you can go through those and look at those but those are the three that I mainly use lh and a so I Thank you for watching and as always I hope that you enjoy this video be sure to comment below Let me know what you're thinking of these videos Subscribe share like and again right now. We're going over the very basics. We'll get some more fun things I'm trying to knock these out a few each week so we can get some more fun things Thanks for watching as always. I hope that you have