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Old 10-05-2015
Retrieving names of files in a dir without overlapping
Hi,

I have been trying to retrieve the names of files present in a directory one by one but the names of files are getting overlapped on one another.

I tried the below command.
Code:
ls -1 > filename

please help me in getting the file names line by line without overlapping. I am using korn shell.
# 2  
Old 10-05-2015
your commanline would produce a file of filenames in one colon...
How can it get overlapping?
Show us what you are doing so we can understand your issue or the content of filename...
# 3  
Old 10-05-2015
Its not like all the file names are overlapping. Only few of the file names are getting overlapped in a single line. I have around 2832 files in a dir. When i executed the command , i just got 2751 file names in the generated file. When i went through the generated file, i was able to find some lines having more than one file names in one line. Some file names were even missed out.
# 4  
Old 10-05-2015
Samples, please, not necessarily all 2832 lines. Can you produce a hexdump of the relevant portions of the output file.
# 5  
Old 10-05-2015
And on what system you are running
# 6  
Old 10-06-2015
Please find the screenshot of names retrieved in the file. I have highlighted the overlapped line.
Retrieving names of files in a dir without overlapping-savejpg
# 7  
Old 10-06-2015
A screenshot doesn't help. Post/attach the file as is (text). What about the hexdump?
 
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