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Hi All,

Can anyone help me how to change the the o/p of ls -la command under any directory in a pipe | delimited format.

Thanks,
jam

ls -la <Directory Path> | tr "\n" ";"

Regards,
Sasidhar

Hi Sasi,

I dont think so it will work as i required. it will just cat all the lines in to a single line with ; sepated format.
Let me brief my requirement,
if i run ls -la cmd in my current directory o/p look like
drwxrwxr-x 8 ic develop 1024 Nov 15 17:40 ./
drwxrwxr-x 11 ic develop 1024 Nov 15 16:05 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ic develop 236 Nov 15 16:05 avg.sh*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ic develop 1416 Nov 15 16:05 bak
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ic develop 2702 Nov 15 16:05 bak2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ic develop 0 Nov 15 16:05 batch
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ic develop 37 Nov 15 16:05 bigfile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ic develop 313 Nov 15 16:05 bintooct*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ic develop 16184 Nov 15 16:05 cat_def
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ic develop 426 Nov 15 16:05 chessboard*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ic develop 211 Nov 15 16:05 chk*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ic develop 315 Nov 15 16:05 decimaltobinary*
drwxrwxr-x 3 ic develop 512 Nov 15 17:39 excer/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ic develop 196 Nov 15 16:05 fact.sh*

i wanted to convert this mutiple, inconsistace spaces with "|" o/p should like

-rwxr-xr-x|1|ic|develop|196|Nov|15|16:05|fact.sh*

can it be done using single command in shell?

thanks,
jam

this will do

Code:

ls -al | awk '{ for(i=1; i<=9; i++) { printf "%s|", $i } printf "\n" } '

ls -la | sed -n 's/ */|/gp'

or

ls -la | sed -n 's/ [ \t]*/|/gp'

Cheers
rex

I doubt your first command regarding the o/p required

its much of delimiting each and every character of ls -la and not the words