Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Formatted Directory Listing Question
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Formatted Directory Listing Question Post 302918223 by Corona688 on Monday 22nd of September 2014 11:21:57 AM
Old 09-22-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by LinQ
@Corona688:

Curious!

Was wondering why find | ... seemed content with just moseying over to recurse whatever is on the dir with it.
The same reason 'ls' is, I suppose. That's what it's there for.
Quote:
Thought your find / -depth | ... was indicative of yet another syntactical secret handshake which seems to permeate the bash world...
There are no secret handshakes. find is an external command like everything else.
Quote:
So, is my syntax correct as find | ... to simply rummage the folder(s) on the immediate dir, or does convention call for a different approach? If OK, would running your snippet with find -depth | ... fit the bill for a quick recurse through local folders only?
Sure.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Recursive directory listing without listing files

Does any one know how to get a recursive directory listing in long format (showing owner, group, permission etc) without listing the files contained in the directories. The following command also shows the files but I only want to see the directories. ls -lrtR * (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: psingh
4 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Timestamp in directory listing

Hi, I need a help. I want to see all the files in the directory with the Time Stamp. I use the following command. $ls -lt This displays the files with time stamp, but not all the files. Only last few months, the files are displayed with timestamp, the old files are only have dates. ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vijashok
2 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can i get directory listing?

Hai friends is there any command in unix that display only directories... (I have 5 directories in my home directory, and i also have some files along with directories...But when i tried to show the directory listing using the command ls -d i wasn't presented by the directory listing...Please... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: haisubbu
2 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Sorting Directory Listing

If I do an ls -l on a directory I get this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5248094 Jun 24 03:56 monitor.log.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5248303 Jul 11 11:19 ct.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5248907 Jun 29 06:01 ct_monitor.log.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5249042 Jun 19... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Sepia
1 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

nicely formatted directory listing from batch ssh session

Hi, I am really struggling to finish of a script I have been assigned. The script's purpose is to log on to each server defined in an array, determine the Web Server version, and list the directory beneath the installation directory. In my case, this installation directory is almost always... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: grebbux
6 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Directory Listing Help

i have searched through this site and have found some useful information but i'm struggling with one thing. In my script i am created a start and end file so I can get a listing of the files within those two files. However I want to exclude any sub-directories in this listing. Below are the... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: J-DUB
8 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Directory listing

Hi, I have a directory with a bunch of files say around 150K. I want the directory's path and the filenames printed to a text file. Example: If I am in the directory /path/test and the files in this directory are My output file should be like this Thanks in advance ----------... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jacobs.smith
4 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Simple listing directory question

I have a very basic question: How do I list all the directories in the following order? If I do ls -l I get different results than I want to achieve. dir.1 dir.2 dir.3 dir.4 dir.5 dir.6 dir.7 dir.8 dir.9 dir.10 dir.11 dir.12 dir.13 dir.14 (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jville
4 Replies

9. Homework & Coursework Questions

Listing the files in a directory

Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted! 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: A script that takes any number of directories as command line arguments and then lists the contents of each of... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Phaneendra G
3 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sending formatted email with sendmail question

Hi All, Can anyone help with an email formatting question: Im using the following example to try and send a formatted email: outputFile="file.txt" ( echo "From: oracle@inovis.com" echo "To: john.dickinson@gxs.com" echo "MIME-Version: 1.0" echo "Subject: Test Font" echo... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jonnyd
4 Replies

LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

lessecho

LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME

       lessecho - expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.

SYNOPSIS

       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-a] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the lessecho command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       lessecho is a program that simply echos its filename arguments on standard output. But  any  argument  containing  spaces  is  enclosed	in
       quotes.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options are included below.

       -ox    Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.

       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

       -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.

SEE ALSO

       less(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Less was written by  Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>

																       LESSECHO(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:06 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy