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# 1  
Old 05-18-2010
Help with extract using awk

I am trying to get the filenames which is $9 when i use ls -lrt

but i am getting only some of the name using below command.

ls -lrt *.edf

Quote:
-rw-r--r-- 1 holu hol4ca 298510 May 4 15:56 Green Bay - Appleton.edf

ls -lrt *.edf | awk '{print $9}'
Quote:
gives only Green
is it bcs the filename has spaces in between them?
How can I get the complete file name in cases like this?
# 2  
Old 05-18-2010
y dont u try ..
ls -a *.edf > output
# 3  
Old 05-18-2010
I also need file size along with that. So i can't use ls
# 4  
Old 05-18-2010
Code:
ls -a *.edf | cut -d" " -f5,9-

# 5  
Old 05-19-2010
This is not working. I am not getting the filename and size correctly. All my files have spaces in them and i have to get their full name along with size
# 6  
Old 05-19-2010
Tools what about

instead of
Code:
ls -a *.edf | cut -d" " -f5,9-

try
Code:
ls -a *.edf | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f5,9-

# 7  
Old 05-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by joeyg
instead of
Code:
ls -a *.edf | cut -d" " -f5,9-

try
Code:
ls -a *.edf | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f5,9-

This will produce wrong results if the file name contains multiple sequential spaces.
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