This command is showing the file names in the directory as well..
Is it not possible just to list the directory names and the sub directores ..
Yes, it is:
prints only the names of the directories, not the files. If you want to output to be "ls -l"-like (more exactly: like "ls -lisa") replace the "-print" with "-ls".
I suggest you read the man page of "find" to learn what other possibilities of changing the output there are.
Is it possible to have a directory owned (by root) with permissions drwx------
and then have a sub directory of rwxrwxrwx.
I know that this may be soo simple but I had no luck googling it.
Thanks for your help (1 Reply)
Hi Genius,
I would like to display all the subdirectories only with timestamp.
For exmple:
Given Directory : orabkup
/orabkup
total 11365112
drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle oradba 256 Jan 03 16:01 db1
/orabkup/db1:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oradba 256 Jan 03 16:01... (8 Replies)
Hi,
Does anybody know the cmd to compare two areas and print out the different files w/ path?
I tried cmp and diff and dircmp but with no luck.
Should I grep and print?
For example:
/aa/images/jan
..../images/feb
/bb/images/jan
..../images/feb
i want to print the compare,... (5 Replies)
From the main directory, I have multiple layers of subdirectories and imbedded files (jpg's) that I would like to have a quiklook. Is there a way of listing out the contents of all of the subdirectories and files with a one-line command?
Thx... (3 Replies)
hi,
i want to display all subdirectory files with directory name.
I am using ls -Rl this will gives only filenames with long listing.
But i want the filename padded with directory name.
example :
-rw-r--r-- 1 sidfor sigbd 1713 May 24 09:33... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone,
Maybe this is simple question for many of you, but I get confused.:confused:
How to archive a parent directory which contains some subdirectories and some files?
I have searched this forum, there are some commands like tar,etc, I tried but can not be implemented in my system.... (6 Replies)
Hello
I'm new to the area Bash scripting
and that is why I have a search script that is run on my unix server
and always when I start the server
or every 24 hours
The script will create backups of directories and subdirectories
I never found what I'm here make a new thread ... (1 Reply)
I need to use pushd and popd to navigate all of the subdirectories in my current directory.
I know how to get into each subdirectory, add it to the stack, and pop back out, but i cant figure out how to get into subdirectories deeper than the first without adding a foreach and if statement for... (1 Reply)
Hello all!
I'm looking to list directories and sub-directories of a path, on this forum I found this command:
find $path -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
The issue I have is that with a simple ls, the list is listed by name, and using -t I get it by time.
How could I list directories and sub... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have to find all directories, which contain files, but dont have subdirectories.
For example if i have tree like:
├── kat11
│ ├── kat21
│ │ └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy
│ └── kat22
│ ├── kat31
│ │ └── Dokument\ bez\ nazwy
│ └── kat32
│ └──... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: eValker
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)