If it isn't homework, please be a little bit less cryptic. What ., ?, !, and spaces?
Are you saying that some of your filenames contain those characters and you only want to list files that have names containing seven characters but only if none of those seven characters are a period, question mark, exclamation point, or a space?
Are you saying that some of your filenames contain those characters and you only want to list files that have names containing seven characters (ignoring any period, question mark, exclamation point, and space characters when counting the number of characters in the file's name).
Are you saying that you don't want ls to include any spaces, tabs, or newlines between the filenames it lists?
Or are you asking for something else that I haven't guessed might be what you're trying to do?
Ah my bad wrong section ill repost but yes what i want is using ls to list files/directories that contain 7 letters but excluding signs/numbers such as ?!. and spaces
for example checkas would be correct but answ.txt would not be
hi,
We have a huge directory that ha 5.1 Million files in it. We are trying to get the file name and modified timestamp of the most recent 3 years from this huge directory for a migration project.
However, the ls command (background process) to list the file names and timestamp is running for... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Using ftp i was able to get a directory listing to local directory.
ftp - i <host_name>
ftp <user>
ftp <password>
dir <dir>
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-rw-r-- 1 <uuu> <kkk> 160384 Apr 13 19:38 walmart.txt
226... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file at remote server. I have to select only current day's files that are dropped on ftp server. The files do not have date or timestamp on them.
so I plan to get the file listing from remote server to the local server. Based on file listing date I can find out when the files... (2 Replies)
Hello,
When listing the file systems (using ls -ltr) , if the group names are longer the group name is getting truncated.
Can someone help with the script which would display the truncated group name?
I appreciate if someone could help in this regard. (3 Replies)
Hello,
When listing the file systems (using ls -ltr) , if the group names are longer the group name is getting truncated.
Can someone help with the script which would display the truncated group name?
I appreciate if someone could help in this regard. (1 Reply)
Hello,
When listing the file systems (using ls -ltr) , if the group names are longer the group name is getting truncated.
Can someone help with the script which would display the truncated group name?
I appreciate if someone could help in this regard. (1 Reply)
hi Everbody,
I had file names as shown
file_01_20101104.txt
file_01_20101105.txt
file_02_20101104.txt
file_01_20101205.txt
file_03_20101104.txt
file_02_20101105.txt
Now i want to list them based on the date in the file name as shown...
file_01_20101104.txt
file_02_20101104.txt... (3 Replies)
How do I get this to work?
cat somefile | grep "-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Sep 10 15:12 shells~"
This is the the desired output
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Sep 10 15:12 shells~
I basically want an exact match of the line I am grepping for, the special characters and... (5 Replies)
Does any one know how to get a recursive directory listing in long format (showing owner, group, permission etc) without listing the files contained in the directories.
The following command also shows the files but I only want to see the directories.
ls -lrtR * (4 Replies)
Hi
I would like to a long list of files up to a given date. I've tried:
ls -al > filelist
but this command gives me all the files. I've also have tried the find command:
find . -mtime -10 -type f -print > filelist
This gives me information on active file within the past 10 days and... (2 Replies)
02-20-2016
