Example 1-3 continued

• Directory ~/bash_scripting/mloc contains a number of files for a cluster of events in Zagros. For each event, there is a bulletin and phase information file. To sort the files in terms of their size in descending order, we use the following command,

• ls -l -S *ffb

• The switch -S makes ls to sort the files in a descending order. The switch -l gives more information about each file including its size and time of creation and its permissions.….....