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Old 01-18-2011
File name has double spacing, but after print it's gone
Hi,
I am writing this script to find all files in a directory and print the filepath, date and file size.

However, it doesnt seem to preserve double spacing file with this script. I would appreciate a pointer or 2 to get around this -

Quote:
find $1 -type f -ls | awk '{for (i=11; i<=NF; i++) printf("%s ",$i); print "\t"$7"\t" $8,$9,$10;}' > $2
printf("%s ",$i) is printing the filepath, what do i need to do to make sure that unix print with double space preserved?
# 2  
Old 01-18-2011
Hi
Show us the output you are getting, and how are you expecting it to happen? Because I dont see anything specific to double spacing in the command.

Guru
# 3  
Old 01-18-2011
Oh....... this is what i meant

I have a filename

Code:
ABC  DEF.txt

And it printed with
Code:
ABC DEF.txt

# 4  
Old 01-18-2011
Why on earth would you even want a filename with two consecutive spaces in them? Plus isn't that supposed to be -printf instead of the printf you have in your awk command?
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