Expanding on what Scrutinizer said... As already explained in this thread, this only works if IFS is set to the <newline> character.
With a default setting of IFS (IFS=$' \t\n'), that command would produce something more like:
And, you get the same results with:
because that only sets IFS in the environment for the invocation of printf; not for the evaluation of the results of the command substitution done in the current shell execution environment when preparing arguments to be passed to printf.
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Hi,
THe following is the output when i run the command ls -ltr
can anyone explain the meaning of the field in red
-rw-r----- 3 orca orca 20924 Sep 08 19:21 BTL027SASI.gnt
-rw-r----- 3 orca orca 20924 Sep 08 19:21 BTL027RITD.gnt
-rw-r----- 3 orca orca ... (2 Replies)
when I write the command ls -ltr it shows the detail of the files. Like
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mqsiadm mqbrkrs 0 Aug 29 14:03 dspmq_temp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mqsiadm mqbrkrs 666 Aug 30 06:12 dspmq_script
In this,DATE TIME is shown, Now the question is : how can I see the all the times... (5 Replies)
i have to list some file with certain exemption
suppose for example i have two files
file1.log.1
file1.log.1.123
i want ls -ltr command to list only 1st type of files
so i want like this
ls -ltr *.log.*---------it should grep 1st kind of files but this command greps all the files... (4 Replies)
I am writing a script where in i have to log into a remote machine and check for necessary file by typing (ls -ltr *200505) (this gets all 05month of 2008 yr files) and if files are found get them to the local machine. If not found print a message saying no files on local machine.
When i was... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to parse the listing (ls -ltr) in a given directory and get a particular value to see the success or failure. e.g
drwxr-xr-x 5 sensr vpnuser 512 Nov 7 07:46 disc_001811. Here i need to take the value 5 which is after drwxr-xr-x . how to so the same in shell... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
Server details –
Machine hardware: sun4u
OS version: 5.9
Processor type: sparc
Hardware: SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
When I put ls –ltr command I get –
/users/testuser> ls -ltr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 testuser dba 76 Jan 13 2009 ftp.scr
-rwxr-xr-x 1... (6 Replies)
Hi ,
Whenever i try to execute ls with l as an option the system hangs.
The workload on server is not more than 1.
What could be the reason .
Normal ls works fine but ls -l causes the system to hang.
This is happening when i m in /usr/local/sbin directory.
I can see that the... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have one requirement, where I need to have output of ls -l command sorted on 1) first on filename 2) last modified time ( descending ) - latest change first.
I am not able to figure out how to do it..
Also I dont have a way to change Date display for ls -ltr command..
I am... (1 Reply)
Could you please let me know what each of the output fields in ls -ltr for a directory imply.
Example :
drwxrwsr-x 4294967295 infamgr infagrp 2147549184 Sep 2 17:01 job
basically would want to know 4294967295 and 2147549184 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: infernalhell
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lsattr
LSATTR(1) General Commands Manual LSATTR(1)NAME
lsattr - list file attributes on a Linux second extended file system
SYNOPSIS
lsattr [ -RVadlpv ] [ files... ]
DESCRIPTION
lsattr lists the file attributes on a second extended file system. See chattr(1) for a description of the attributes and what they mean.
OPTIONS -R Recursively list attributes of directories and their contents.
-V Display the program version.
-a List all files in directories, including files that start with `.'.
-d List directories like other files, rather than listing their contents.
-l Print the options using long names instead of single character abbreviations.
-p List the file's project number.
-v List the file's version/generation number.
AUTHOR
lsattr was written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>. It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.
BUGS
There are none :-).
AVAILABILITY
lsattr is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.
SEE ALSO chattr(1)E2fsprogs version 1.44.1 March 2018 LSATTR(1)