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Being able to see seconds in the UNIX ‘ls’ command is particularly useful for comparing/viewing recently created files, because by default ‘ls -l’ will simply show “Today” in the date/time field for such files.
Here’s how you can make ‘ls’ show also the seconds (and not only seconds but also microseconds, for that matter… […]
Creating this post to dump here various bash shell and script commands, tips and tricks which I found useful in my everyday work. Will update it with new info continually…
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Check in bash if a file exists or not and do something in each case:
if [ -f $FILE ]; then echo […]
