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Old 11-13-2008
How to parse the listing (ls -ltr)

Hi,

I need to parse the listing (ls -ltr) in a given directory and get a particular value to see the success or failure. e.g
drwxr-xr-x 5 sensr vpnuser 512 Nov 7 07:46 disc_001811. Here i need to take the value 5 which is after drwxr-xr-x . how to so the same in shell scripting.
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Old 11-13-2008
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Originally Posted by MuthuAlagappan
Hi,

I need to parse the listing (ls -ltr) in a given directory and get a particular value to see the success or failure. e.g
drwxr-xr-x 5 sensr vpnuser 512 Nov 7 07:46 disc_001811. Here i need to take the value 5 which is after drwxr-xr-x . how to so the same in shell scripting.
Code:
ls -ltr | awk '{ print $2 }'

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