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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting more help with formatting ls output... Post 302365306 by patrick99e99 on Monday 26th of October 2009 02:47:55 PM
Old 10-26-2009
more help with formatting ls output...

Ok, for a fun project, my goal is to replicate the style of "catalog" on an old apple ][+...

If you're unfamiliar with the format, it was like this:

Code:
*A 002 SOMEAPPLESOFTFILE
  B 004 SOMEFILE
  T 006 SOMETEXT
  I  002 SOMEINTEGERFILE

The first character is either " " or "*" depending on if the file is locked or not.

Next is the filetype, so in my unix version, that could either be the mimetype abbreviated or-- the extension of the file if it has one.

And then is the file size..

Lastly the file name.

Can anyone walk me through some techniques to do this?

-patrick

Last edited by zaxxon; 10-27-2009 at 02:26 AM.. Reason: code tags please!
 

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SUSPICIOUS-SOURCE(1)					      General Commands Manual					      SUSPICIOUS-SOURCE(1)

NAME
suspicious-source - search for files that are not the GPL's "preferred form of modification" SYNOPSIS
suspicious-source [options] DESCRIPTION
suspicious-source is a script that outputs a list of files which are not common source files. This should be run in the root of a source tree to find files which might not be the "preferred form of modification" that the GPL and other licenses require. The files inside version control system directories (like .bzr/ or CVS/) are not considered. OPTIONS
-h, --help Show this help message and exit. -v, --verbose Print more information. -d directory, --directory=directory Check the files in the specified directory instead of the current directory. -m mimetype, --mimetype=mimetype Add mimetype to list of white-listed MIME types. -e extension, --extension=extension Add extension to list of white-listed extensions. AUTHORS
suspicious-source and this manpage have been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>. Both are released under the ISC license. DEBIAN
Debian Utilities SUSPICIOUS-SOURCE(1)
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