Shell Programming and Scripting

does ne1 know how list the ordinary files not directories

been through man pages and there is no command

as the command to display directoy only is ls -d */

pipe the output of your ls -l command to grep -v ^d

that says do not display any entries that have the directory attribute set.

cheers m8 it worked

only got 1 thing left to do is to calculate the total number of bytes

should this be added into another file to calculate the total number of bytes

you could wrap the whole statement up into a loop then execute the ls portion on each specific file while you are doing that you can start the counter to add up all the bytes.

the more and more this progresses the more and more it sounds like homework.

ok i think i'm on the right track

i've changed the file, i have a file called C which has the following code:

{n++;t+=$4};END{print "total number of files "n " " "total size"t
print $5, $9}

the code to run on command line is :

Ls -l | grep -v ^d | awk -f C

my problem is that it only print one file out of the list. i have 19 oridinary files and only the last file is being printed. how can i make it print out the entire list cuz @ the moment the code which prints from the list is "print $5, $9"

can ne1 help me with this small problem

ok guyz i got it done

u can do whatever u want to do with this post

but i'd like to thanx the following members :

google

Optimus_P

for helping me complete this task

l8er bros