You can explicitly exclude the current (dot) directory with something like
(Alternate sed invocation just to show There's More Than One Way To Do It.)
The use of tr to replace newlines with ASCII NUL is so I can use xargs -0 in order to cope with spaces in file names. It still won't work right if you have directory names with newlines in them, but I guess that's an acceptable restriction in practice.
Why do you want to pass this to ls -d, though? It will wrap the output into columns which is kind of neat, but using ls just for this side effect is kind of obscure. (Maybe something like pr -bt4 would be more transparent, although ls is more flexible, as it does some dynamic formatting of the column widths depending on the lengths of the entries.)
Last edited by era; 07-23-2008 at 02:40 AM..
Reason: Question about ls -d
I have a problem with the script below
#!/bin/sh
for vo in `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -regex "^\./*$"`
do
ls -l "$vo"
some other commands
done
It works fine until `find ...` returns files with spaces. I've tryed to change IFS but haven't succeed
Any solutions? (4 Replies)
I have files on my unix boxes that users have created with spaces.
Example: /tmp/project plan
ls -l "/tmp/project plan" works fine.
$/tmp>ls -l "/tmp/project plan"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jan 31 12:32 /tmp/project plan
I created a file called test and put just the... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I see similar problems in past threads but so far no answers have worked for me. I am trying to write a script which parses a txt file that contains one filename per line, then finds those files on the local disk and copies them to a specified directory.
What I have:
... (4 Replies)
Hi
I hope someone will be able to resolve this little teaser!
I am running a script
for file in `ls directory`
do
echo "$file"
...other code here....
done
this works fine unless we receive a file with a name which has a space in it
ie
"filena me"
(I know its not good... (8 Replies)
I want to ftp all the sh files in the directory. Also if any of the file name
contains spaces in them, it should be converted to underscores before it is ftped. I wrote the following code below:
FILESSH=$(ls /mysh/*.sh)
--- FILESH being used here for some other task ---
echo "$FILESSH" |... (3 Replies)
Hey there, this is my first post and I'll try to explain my situation as best I can.Here is a sample of the input file:
ADO Sample.h,v ADO Sample 2010-05-21 lyonsb /repository/patents/TSCommon/OpenSource/Dundass/ug6mfc/DataSources/Ado/ADO Sample
ADO SampleDoc.h,v ADO SampleDoc 2010-05-21... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have files like below, In files coming as spaces. Before transfering those files into ftp server. I want to remove the spaces and then can transfer the files into unix server.
e.g: filenames are
1) SHmail _profile001_20120908.txt
2) SHmail_profile001 _20120908.txt
3) sh... (3 Replies)
Hi, if in between strings "<section" and "</section>" across multiple lines there occurs the string "ole-present", delete all line breaks and replace any tabs or multiple spaces with a single space. Looking for an AWK or SED solution. Thank you.
<section ...
status = "ole-present"
...... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to remove all extra spaces, line breaks .
Need a new line entry only for term starting"array"
For eg: my input is
array(),
array(),
array(),
and my expected output is
array(),
array(),
array(),
Is it possible using awk? (5 Replies)
I'm trying to handle some files with spaces in their name using "" or \ . Like "file 1" or file\ 1.
My current confusion can be expressed by the following shell script:
#!/bin/bash
touch "file 1" "file 2"
echo -n "ls: " ; ls
echo ---
for file in "file 1" "file 2" ; do
echo $file... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ralph
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
roff
is a text formatter. Its input consists of the text to be out-
put, intermixed with formatting commands. A formatting commandis a line containing the control character followed by a twocharacter command name, and possibly one or more arguments. Thecontrol character is initially . (dot). The formatted output isproduced on standard output. The formatting commands are listedbelow, with being a number, being a character, and being a title.A + before n means it may be signed, indicating a positive ornegative change from the current value. Initial values for whererelevant, are given in parentheses.
.ad Adjust right margin.
.ar Arabic page numbers.
.br Line break. Subsequent text will begin on a new line.
.bl n Insert n blank lines.
.bp +n Begin new page and number it n. No n means +1.
.cc c Control character is set to c.
.ce n Center the next n input lines.
.de zz Define a macro called zz. A line with .. ends definition.
.ds Double space the output. Same as .ls 2.
.ef t Even page footer title is set to t.
.eh t Even page header title is set to t.
.fi Begin filling output lines as full as possible.
.fo t Footer titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hc c The character c (e.g., %) tells roff where hyphens are permitted.
.he t Header titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hx Header titles are suppressed.
.hy n Hyphenation is done if n is 1, suppressed if it is 0. Default is 1.
.ig Ignore input lines until a line beginning with .. is found.
.in n Indent n spaces from the left margin; force line break.
.ix n Same as .in but continue filling output on current line.
.li n Literal text on next n lines. Copy to output unmodified.
.ll +n Line length (including indent) is set to n (65).
.ls +n Line spacing: n (1) is 1 for single spacing, 2 for double, etc.
.m1 n Insert n (2) blank lines between top of page and header.
.m2 n Insert n (2) blank lines between header and start of text.
.m3 n Insert n (1) blank lines between end of text and footer.
.m4 n Insert n (3) blank lines between footer and end of page.
.na No adjustment of the right margin.
.ne n Need n lines. If fewer are left, go to next page.
.nn +n The next n output lines are not numbered.
.n1 Number output lines in left margin starting at 1.
.n2 n Number output lines starting at n. If 0, stop numbering.
.ni +n Indent line numbers by n (0) spaces.
.nf No more filling of lines.
.nx f Switch input to file f.
.of t Odd page footer title is set to t.
.oh t Odd page header title is set to t.
.pa +n Page adjust by n (1). Same as .bp
.pl +n Paper length is n (66) lines.
.po +n Page offset. Each line is started with n (0) spaces.
.ro Page numbers are printed in Roman numerals.
.sk n Skip n pages (i.e., make them blank), starting with next one.
.sp n Insert n blank lines, except at top of page.
.ss Single spacing. Equivalent to .ls 1.
.ta Set tab stops, e.g., .ta 9 17 25 33 41 49 57 65 73 (default).
.tc c Tabs are expanded into c. Default is space.
.ti n Indent next line n spaces; then go back to previous indent.
.tr ab Translate a into b on output.
.ul n Underline the letters and numbers in the next n lines.