commands detail - l

locate

There isn’t a builtin PowerShell version of locate, but Chrissy LeMaire’s (website) has written an Invoke-Locate script ‘in the spirit of (Linux/Unix) GNU findutils’ locate’. It works really well

ls

The PowerShell equivalent of the Unix ls is:

  1. Get-ChildItem

… for which there are aliases dir, ls and gci

ls -a

In linux, ls -a displays hidden files as well as ‘normal’ files.

So ls gives:

  1. $ ls
  2. README.md

but ls -a gives

  1. $ ls -a
  2. .  ..  .function-prompt.ps1.swp  .git  README.md

The Powershell equivalent of ls -a is get-childitem -force. Here, I’ve used the alias ls

  1. $ ls
  4.     Directory: C:\Users\matt\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\functions
  7. Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name  
  8. ----                -------------     ------ ---- 
  9. -a---        04/06/2015     13:20       1422 README.md
  13. $ ls -force
  16.     Directory: C:\Users\matt\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\functions
  19. Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name               
  20. ----                -------------     ------ ----              
  21. d--h-        04/06/2015     13:20            .git             
  22. -a-h-        20/05/2015     17:33      12288 .function-prompt.ps1.swp
  23. -a---        04/06/2015     13:20       1422 README.md

ls -ltr

The Powershell equivalent of the unix ls -ltr (or the DOS dir /OD), which
lists files last update order.

  1. dir c:\folder | sort-object -property lastwritetime

lsusb

The unix command lsusb shows USB devices. The PowerShell equivalent is:

  1. gwmi Win32_USBControllerDevice

gwmi is an alias for get-wmiobject