On 6/5/08, atreux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > he can adjust the character range as it applies to his `ls -l` listing...
flexibility must be always one of the important rules to avoid bugs in the program... > of course, the `find` command is much better as the parameters don't need to > be changed depending on circumstances. > > still, `cut` is needed to remove the './' that begins each line... :-) yup you still need another way to extract the filename as "find" alone cant do that... > find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | cut -c3-300 a little fine tuning there :-> find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | cut -c3- it instruct "cut" to take characters starting from the third upto the rest of it as "find" guarantees you that starting the 3rd character is the start of a filename... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
