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Thank you! I do have a question though. What does the “ls” in lsusb stand for? I’ve found several query commands that begin with ls and it might help me remember them a bit better if I understand what they mean

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seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t know it’s proper name but “list” is an easy way to remember it. Want to see a list of what’s in a folder? ls.

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- Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  The name inherited from Multics and is short for “list”.
  
  wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls
  
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- Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Alright, that’s not hard to remember. Thank you!
  
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- SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  ls or l is also often used as an option/switch that is passed to another program to list something. Want to list all active Screen sessions? screen -ls. Want to list all mounted filesystems? mount -l
  
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- vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  List of PCI devices? lspci.
  
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