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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Move same files and issue ls -al command on remaining files Post 302503954 by methyl on Saturday 12th of March 2011 06:11:55 PM
Old 03-12-2011
The problem is that "ls -a" includes the directories "." and ".." .
Hint: "ls -A" does not include "." and ".." .


If you want a directory list of only the files in the directory and don't want anything from subdirectories it gets a little more complicated. This example script is will allow for filenames containing space characters and also avoids descending directory trees. The method assumes that you don't have a version of the find command which has the "-maxdepth" parameter. I've also avoided an open-ended "for" command which is prone to failure in some Operating System versions (e.g. some AIX).
Redirecting STDERR (channel 2) allows for there to be no match.

Code:
ls -Ad "$1"/* 2>/dev/null | while read file
do
    if [ -f "${file}" ]
    then
          ls -lad "${file}"
    fi
done

 

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ha

ha(1)								    HA archiver 							     ha(1)

NAME

       ha - a small file archiver utility

SYNOPSIS

       ha <command>[<option><option>...]  archive [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       After the program name comes a command name (single letter) and options (single letters, appended to the command name without a space).

COMMANDS

       a[sdqemr012]
	      Add files matching search pattern to archive.

       e[aqty]
	      Extract files matching search pattern from archive.

       x[aqty]
	      Extract files matching search pattern from archive using path information stored in archive.

       l[f]   List files currently in archive.

       d[q]   Delete files matching search pattern from archive.  If archive does not contain any files after deletion it is removed.

       f[sdqemr012]
	      Freshen files in archive. All files matching search pattern and newer than version already in archive are updated to archive.

       u[sdqemr012]
	      Update  files to archive. All files matching search pattern that are newer than version already in archive or are not yet in archive
	      are updated to archive.

       t[q]   Test files in archive.

OPTIONS

       0,1,2  Try compression method #. More than one can be specified.

	      Methods are:
		0-CPY  Simple copying of files.
		1-ASC Default method using sliding window dictionary followed by arithmetic
		      coder. Offers quite good compression on wide variety of file types.
		2-HSC Compression method based on finite context model and arithmetic
		      coder. Quite slow for binary data, but offers very good compression
		      especially for longer text files.

       y      Assume answer yes on all questions.

       t      Touch files when extracting. Sets file times to current machine time.

       r      Recurse through subdirectories while searching for files matching search pattern.

       f      Full listing of stored file information.

       m      Move files when archiving. Files are removed from disk after they are successfully written to archive.

       a      Set system specific file attributes when extracting files.

       s      Find special files when archiving.

       e      Do not store pathname information.

       q      Quiet operation.

       d      Make separate entries for directories. Saves information about empty directories, directory attributes etc. in archive.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> for Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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