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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers shell script to find noof characters in a file name Post 302402074 by krishnampkkm on Monday 8th of March 2010 09:39:23 PM
Old 03-08-2010
shell script to find noof characters in a file name
hiiii

shell script to find noof characters in a file name, when you run ls -l (using awk)

I tried with this

Code:
ls -l > temp
awk -F"," '{print $1 "   " expr length $9}' temp

but it give some other value instead of file name length (error value like , 563,54,55,56....).How to prnint the the file name length ..?

Code:
bash-3.1$ sh 21.sh
total 24   8
-rw-r--r-- 1 krishna users 112 2010-03-08 06:05 21.sh   53
-rw-r--r-- 1 krishna users  47 2010-03-08 05:42 21.sh~   54
-rw-r--r-- 1 krishna users  34 2010-03-08 06:19 new1.sh   55
-rw-r--r-- 1 krishna users   2 2010-03-08 06:15 new1.sh~   56
-rw-r--r-- 1 krishna users   0 2010-03-09 08:06 temp   52
-rw-r--r-- 1 krishna users  69 2010-03-08 06:08 test1.sh   56
-rw-r--r-- 1 krishna users   2 2010-03-08 05:55 test1.sh~   57
bash-3.1$

Last edited by pludi; 03-09-2010 at 02:21 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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script

script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  utility  makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
       record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.

       The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
       when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -a    Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.

NOTES

       script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       script  can  pose  a  security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
       privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.

SunOS 5.11							    30 Jan 2004 							 script(1)
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