or "find . -type f -print"
more details at http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/Find/find_mini_tutorial.shtml
--- On Wed, 6/4/08, fooler mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: fooler mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [plug] Getting list of regular files (with whitespaces) using ls
and AWK
To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List"
<plug@lists.linux.org.ph>
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 9:08 PM
On 6/4/08, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have a script that needs to get a list of regular files only (This
means excluding
> directories and symbolic links). Usually the line below works:
>
> ls -l | egrep '^-' | awk '{print $9;}'
>
> However the line above will fail for files having filename with
whitespaces.
> Any other ideas?
yup...because $9 is the 9th field of a given record or line separated
by default space character... the rest of it assigned to $10 and so on
and so forth...
the trick there is to play awk's string function
ls -l | egrep '^-' | awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$9))}'
fooler.
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