Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm Henrik and I am a new member here!

The above is funny: in one of my current projects, I also needed to get the size
of a file and I also cut out the fifth element of 'ls'. Is that really portable? Is the
output of ls always such that the fifth element is the size? I checked on many systems
and it was, but you never know.

BTW, this is my project:

http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html

An ASCII/Console/Command line progress bar written in pure Bourne shell
mainly (or better, initially) for portable install scripts.

thank you. but it gives me :
date: illegal option -- d
usage: date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
date [-u] [+format]
date -a [-]sss[.fff]
Any way how can I format date to have just last month ? Thank you.

Many thanks.

now for the next question on this same note...
If you have unknown directory names within a master directory, that you wish to have an output like the following...

1: directory name
2: sum of contents of file sizes in directory and subs in bytes
and go to next to provide a list, all within the same starting point...
How would the script line look?

This is just derived from modifying your script in substituting the Jun for a known directory name.

??

Again, not bullet-proof [stock Solaris' 9 "find"], but......

find topDirectory -type f -ls | nawk -v month='Jun' -f files.awk

files.awk:

Code:

BEGIN {
  FSpath="/"
}

$8 == month {
    n=split($NF, pathA, FSpath)
    for(i=1; i < n; i++) {
       p = ( i == 1) ? pathA[i] : p FSpath pathA[i]
       arr[p] += $7
    }
    split("", pathA)
}
END {
  for( i in arr)
     printf("[%s] -> [%d]\n", i, arr[i])
}