[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

R Radford rradford at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 30 20:31:26 EST 2013


You must have missed where the OP has to use files already created with the
file info - he cannot recreate the file.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:18 PM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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