[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

[John Broome]

I love how this has turned into a 30+ message thread when the correct,
simplest answer is "ls -1 > dirlist.txt".


On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has never been my forte and just can't seem to figure out what I need
> to do.
>
> I've got a file that basically has a directory listing. I need to parse out
> everything but the filenames. The format of the document is basically like
> this:
>
> 11/09/2013  11:49 AM         7,887,098 this is filename 1.txt
> 11/05/2013  08:09 PM        11,652,690 this is filename 2.sh
>
> Basically I need to strip the date, time and bytes and just leave the
> filename. Filenames will have spaces and various characters, but it is
> always after the bytes and spaces are what separate everything.
>
> This is on an UbuntuStudio 12.04 box.
>
> I figure I could do something with sed or awk or similar, but I just don't
> have a good understanding of them and my google searches did not prove
> helpful (probably not using the right terms in the search).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
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