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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Format next line for ls output Post 302956115 by Don Cragun on Saturday 26th of September 2015 08:28:50 AM
Old 09-26-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
As we have no idea of your current drawer format we have to assume there are files beginning with 'old' too.
ls -d does NOT do what you think it does, read man ls for more info...
but here is my printout of manually doing what you need INCLUDING a file with a beginning section...
Code:
Last login: Sat Sep 26 12:39:07 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> ls -ld Des* > /tmp/text
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cat /tmp/text
-rwxr-xr-x   1 barrywalker  staff  154912 26 Sep 12:29 Desk_top.txt
drwx------+ 13 barrywalker  staff     442  8 Sep 20:35 Desktop
AMIGA:barrywalker~> ls -d Des* > /tmp/text
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cat /tmp/text
Desk_top.txt
Desktop
AMIGA:barrywalker~> _

Inside OSX 10.7.5, default bash terminal.
As you can see apart from having a text file with it it is formatting correctly.
And once again how are you filtering the files from the directiores beginning with the same name?
If you just want to see directories in a case like this, you can use:
Code:
ls -d Des*/ > /tmp/text

The output will include a trailing slash, but in many cases that won't matter. If the trailing slash is a problem, there are lots of ways to get rid of it depending on how the output is being processed.
 

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