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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find and replace character in a string Post 302183960 by saikiransvs on Thursday 10th of April 2008 07:55:11 AM
Old 04-10-2008
Hi,

If the maxdepth option does not work for find on your OS, use the below command

find /Required_Directory/ -type f -exec basename {} \; > file

But this will give you the files recurrsively present inside directories inside the actual directory.

If you need files only in the required directory,use the below command.

ls -l /Required_Directory/ | grep "^-" | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f8 > file

check if the 8th field is filename, if not change the field number.

For your clarification, "basename" command will give you strips the directory path and gives only the filename.
 

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