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Old 04-06-2006
ls command to print fifo of contents (or perl)
Hello,

What are the options to print the contents of a directory in FIFO fashion?
I have searched the forum for something relative to this question and found no answers.
If there is a way please advise, if it has already been answered, please provide a link to the post.

Alternately if there is a perl solution I would be interested in it as well. Thanks.
Jerardfjay Smilie
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Old 04-06-2006
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I must have had a brain fxxx this morning. I have it figured it out.

here is the UNIX version of the same which most of us are aware of

Code:
ls -ltr *ctr | awk '{print "./" $9}' > ls_sort

Here is the perl version of the same, which I was trying to figure out

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
        $CurDir = ".";
        chdir "$CurDir" or print "Error changing to data directory $CurDir $! \n";
        opendir THISDIR, "$CurDir" or print "Error Listing Directory $CurDir $! \n";
        @CurDirFiles = `ls -tr $CurDir/*.ctr`;
        open FILE, ">sortbytime";
        foreach (@CurDirFiles)
        {   
           $CtrFile = $_;
           print FILE $CtrFile;
        }#End of foreach ()  Loop - 3
        close FILE;

If you do a diff between sortbytime and ls_sort, there should be no difference between the files created by the perl program and the ls command shown above. Thanks.
Jerardfjay Smilie
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