Hello there, > I tried using cut to list permissions and filenames from a directory >listing, example: > > ls -l | cut -d"\b" -f 1,9 > temp.txt > >but the delimiter is more than a single character. Using -d " " for >the delimiter does not work as there are more than a single space >separating fields, and the white space is not uniformly a tab.
It can be tricky to get a universally workable sed, awk, uniq when trying to process the out put of 'ls', especially when it comes to filenames, which can have spaces themselves. Are you comfortable with octal permissions? If so, then the 'find' command affords a great deal of control and power: find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -printf '%#m %p\n' Here are four lines of output from one of my scratch directories: 0644 ./150407-Plummer-Project-Update-Admin-Forum.pdf 0644 ./1926 Grandmother 5 year diary.docx 0755 ./Rtree-0.8.2 0644 ./jvc-sp-50M-C.pdf There's quite a bit that 'find' can do.... -Martin -- Martin A. Brown http://linux-ip.net/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
