[TriLUG] Slightly off topic

[Ken MacKenzie]

Just for a follow up.  Worked perfectly.  I mean of course it did.
Anyway...  I never think of awk either when presented with these problems.
I think I need to more.

Ken

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Dewey Hylton <plug at hyltown.com> wrote:

> grep and cut could have been used too, and probably a few other
> combinations as well. the "trick" here is simply filtering based on the
> first field in the 'ls -l' output, where the first character describes the
> file/directory/whatever type. the '-' describes a plain file. the filter
> could have been simplified to '/^-/' as well. i suppose there may be
> situations where the root user has no read access to the file, and the file
> would then not make the list given the longer filter ...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William Sutton" <william at trilug.org>
> > To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2014 7:06:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Slightly off topic
> >
> > Nice... I didn't even think of awk, because I never use it.
> >
> > William Sutton
> >
> > On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
> >
> > > That is exactly what I need, at least as far as trying it against local
> > > linux install.  Monday morning I will try that against Solaris.  Thank
> you.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Dewey Hylton <plug at hyltown.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> ls -l /somedir/ | awk '/^-r/ { print $9 }'
> > >>
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> > From: "Ken MacKenzie" <ken at mack-z.com>
> > >> > To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <
> trilug at trilug.org>
> > >> > Sent: Friday, December 5, 2014 7:11:39 PM
> > >> > Subject: [TriLUG] Slightly off topic
> > >> >
> > >> > This is probably off topic as the intended target for this command
> is
> > >> > Sun/Solaris
> > >> >
> > >> > Anyway I need a single liner that will output files for me similar
> to ls
> > >> -1
> > >> > (note that is a numebr 1 not an l)
> > >> >
> > >> > I need it to only list "true" files as in no links and no
> directories
> > >> > and
> > >> > obviously not recurse down those.
> > >> >
> > >> > Also it needs to spit out a file name not a full path
> > >> >
> > >> > I debated using ls -1p and using grep to leave off the entries that
> had
> > >> > a
> > >> > trailing / but that does not handle the links.
> > >> >
> > >> > I messed with find as an option with something like this
> > >> >
> > >> > find somepath -name "somesearchstring" -o -type d -prune
> > >> >
> > >> > That worked for removing directories but before I tried removing
> links
> > >> > as
> > >> > well I noticed the output spit out the full path.
> > >> >
> > >> > I figured I would hit this list as you guys tend to be quick on the
> draw
> > >> > and I would like to wrap up my work evening having this command
> sorted
> > >> > out.  Even though I am aware it is a Friday night.
> > >> >
> > >> > Ken
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