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# 1  
Old 10-20-2011
awk+cat
Hi,

I am doing this:

Code:
 ll -tr | awk '{print $6, $7, $8, $9}'

the result is:

Dec 30 2008 text1.txt
Mar 4 2009 text2.txt
Apr 10 2009 text3.txt

and now I want to show the content of $9 using below:

Code:
 ll -tr | awk '{print $6, $7, $8, $9}'  ; '{cat $9}'

the content of thos efiles is just one word. so it can be printed next to the $9
but it does not work!!!
# 2  
Old 10-20-2011
Code:
ll -tr | awk '{print $6, $7, $8, $9}'| while read titi tata toto; do cat $toto; done

# 3  
Old 10-20-2011
alternate one ..
Code:
$ ll -tr | awk '{print "echo \""$6,$7,$8,$9"\" `cat "$9"`"}' | sh
Oct 20 14:12 file1 hi
Oct 20 14:12 file2 hi
$

Last edited by jayan_jay; 10-20-2011 at 10:39 AM..
# 4  
Old 10-20-2011
I'm not a clumsy guy but I did not understand vbe code very well

and Jayan's one seems not working on my hp-ux box!!!!!


Code:
ll -tr | awk '{print "echo \""$6,$7,$8,$9"\" `cat "$9"`"}'

result:

echo "Dec 30 2008 text1.txt" `cat text1.txt`
echo "Mar 4 2009 text2.txt" `cat text2.txt`
# 5  
Old 10-20-2011
Pipe that output to sh . Then only you will get the expected o/p
Code:
ll -tr | awk '{print "echo \""$6,$7,$8,$9"\" `cat "$9"`"}' | sh

# 6  
Old 10-20-2011
Nope sorry it does not work! Smilie
# 7  
Old 10-20-2011
Post any errors which you have got ..
 
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