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# 8  
Old 04-01-2011
What kind of "process" do you want to do to those file in your excel sheet?

Please note that the inode number may change if the file is overwritten by a mv or a cp command.

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just run
Code:
find . -ls

and pick up the column you need just as shown above
# 9  
Old 04-01-2011
Learning here...

I don't understand what the various $ are. Where can I find an overview of what $1, $2, $3 is...?

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Any idea on how to avoid the print to not print anything beyond a blank space?

E.g. a file called 'folder 1' will result in a print 'folder', ending if it encounters a blank space.
# 10  
Old 04-01-2011
$x in the awk command will just extract the column number x

please run

Code:
find . -ls

Your output will be made of some columns (inode, size, owner, group, access right ... filename ...)

if you pipe your output to feed the awk command you can then easiy extract the columns of your choice.

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# 11  
Old 04-01-2011
I understand that the $x will return the x-column. Yet, whether a string is a new column or not is defined whether there is a space. This is a problem for:
a column containing the following:
File with name
File_with_name

a find . -ls returns
Code:
3409872        0 drwxr-xr-x    4 user staff         136  1 apr 22:10 .
3409904        8 -rw-r--r--    1 user staff           6  1 apr 15:39 ./File with name.txt
3409897        8 -rw-r--r--    1 user staff           6  1 apr 15:39 ./File_with_name.txt

using the find . -ls | awk '{print $1,$2,$11}'
returns:
Code:
3409872 0 .
3409904 8 ./File
3409897 8 ./File_with_name.txt

I need (minimally)
Code:
3409872 0 .
3409904 8 ./File with name.txt
3409897 8 ./File_with_name.txt

I need ideally:
Code:
3409872 0 .
3409904 8 ./File with name.txt File with name
3409897 8 ./File_with_name.txt File_with_name

Where: 3409904 8 ./File with name.txt File with name
is a line containing inode (cf. 3409904) 8 (file) ./File with name.txt (path); File with name (actual name)
# 12  
Old 04-01-2011
Code:
# minimally
find . -ls |nawk '{match($0,":[0-9][0-9]*");print$1,$3,substr($0,RSTART+3)}'
# ideally
find . -ls |nawk '{match($0,":[0-9][0-9]*");f=substr($0,RSTART+3);print$1,$3,f,substr(f,index(f,"/")+1)}'


Last edited by vgersh99; 04-01-2011 at 05:38 PM.. Reason: minimally/ideally
# 13  
Old 04-01-2011
Error:
-bash: nawk: command not found

The following came rather close:
Code:
find . -type d $a ! -name \. | while read a; do echo ${a} \(--${a##*/}--\) \(--DIRECTORY--\); find -type f -prune; done

Would it be an option to modify this instead of going through awk/nawk?
# 14  
Old 04-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by dakke
Error:
-bash: nawk: command not found
Surprised?
use 'awk' instead.
 
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