LsDev - Command ls -lanR /dev or ls -alZR /dev

The ls -lanR /dev or ls -alZR /dev command provides information for the listing of the /dev directory.

See insights.parsers.ls.FileListing for more information.

class insights.parsers.ls_dev.LsDev(context, extra_bad_lines=None)

Bases: CommandParser, FileListing

Parse the /dev directory listing using a standard FileListing parser.

Warning

For Insights Advisor Rules, it’s recommended to use the insights.parsers.ls.LSlanR and add the "/dev" to the filter list of Specs.ls_lanR_dirs instead.

Sample directory listing::

/dev: total 3 brw-rw----. 1 0 6 253, 0 Aug 4 16:56 dm-0 brw-rw----. 1 0 6 253, 1 Aug 4 16:56 dm-1 brw-rw----. 1 0 6 253, 10 Aug 4 16:56 dm-10 crw-rw-rw-. 1 0 5 5, 2 Aug 5 2016 ptmx drwxr-xr-x. 2 0 0 0 Aug 4 16:56 pts lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 25 Oct 25 14:48 initctl -> /run/systemd/initctl/fifo

/dev/rhel: total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 0 0 100 Jul 25 10:00 . drwxr-xr-x. 23 0 0 3720 Jul 25 12:43 .. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 7 Jul 25 10:00 home -> ../dm-2 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 7 Jul 25 10:00 root -> ../dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 7 Jul 25 10:00 swap -> ../dm-1

Examples

>>> type(ls_dev)
<class 'insights.parsers.ls_dev.LsDev'>
>>> "/dev/rhel" in ls_dev
True
>>> ls_dev.files_of("/dev/rhel")
['home', 'root', 'swap']
>>> ls_dev.dirs_of("/dev/rhel")
['.', '..']
>>> ls_dev.specials_of("/dev/rhel")
[]
>>> sorted(ls_dev.listing_of("/dev/rhel").keys())
['.', '..', 'home', 'root', 'swap']
>>> ls_dev.listing_of('/dev/rhel')['.']['type'] == 'd'
True
>>> ls_dev.listing_of('/dev/rhel')['home']['link']
'../dm-2'