Scripting Novice

[Acxiom Unix Team]

Hello,

I am still a scripting novice and so it still cause me headaches doing the easiest stuff. I wonder if you can help.

I want to pull out an long listing of a directory (not my current working dir) but filter out anything that is a directory. So i thought about using the command;

ls -lp | grep -v /

This works fine on the current working directory, but i wonder how i can integrate this into a script to get this listing from another directory.

Or please can you offer any other ways of getting a listing of just the files only in a directory, without it being your current working directory.

PS: Dont know if it makes any difference but it will have to be issued by sudo, so the command will be something like;

sudo -u root

[Dennis Handly]

>but filter out anything that is a directory.

Try this instead:
ll | grep -v "^d"

>but it will have to be issued by sudo

It shouldn't make a difference, unless /usr/bin isn't in root's path. (No /sbin/ll.)

[Mark McDonald_2 · Accepted solution]

Try this instead:
ll | grep -v "^d"

Just to help - this is using the fact that directories have a 'd' at the start of the permissions. So this is removing newline followed by 'd'

[smatador]

HI,
if you want all the file in a directory you could do
find $DIRECTORY -type f

[Ganesan R]

Hi Andrew,

If you want to long list only files on specific directory, use this command

#ll |grep -v ^d

Ex: ll /tmp |grep -v ^d

With sudo

#sudo -u root ll /tmp |grep -v ^d

[Acxiom Unix Team]

Thanks guys.

And thanks for the explanation Mark of what it actually does.

But one more quick question.

If i wanted to run that command ll | grep -v "^d" on a directory that was not my current working directory could that be done? I am guessing so but i just can figure it out as simply doing that command followed by a directory doesnt work.

[Acxiom Unix Team]

Sorry, forget last posting. Ganesan R has answered my question and shown how daft i am being...

I will assign points and then close the call.

Thanks Again everyone......

[Acxiom Unix Team]

I was given the answer by various people...Ta

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

cd into the directory before running the command.

SEP

[dirk dierickx]

hue.. you need to spend some time getting to know the basic unix commands. sure you can do an ls and then filter out anything which is not a file, but why would you do that when 'find' does those things for you?

find -type f <- shows only files
find -type f <- will show only dirs

and find has many options which will get you were you want to go next.