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How do I limit the number of displayed lines through ls?
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Let's say I have a command How do I limit the output to show me only first 2 files? (except for having only 2 files in that directory)
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ls -Bgclt /somwhere/in/the/past
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Simple - you pipe the output through head: You use -n 3 instead of -n 2 because of the 'total' line at the top of the ls output.
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