topic Re: ls alignment in Operating System - HP-UX

ls alignment

ertraccia — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:42:51 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with ls command; when I run it I get an output like the next one:

-rwxr-x--- 1 root CR-USER 48 Feb 26 11:14 ControllaQIO
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2630207229 Feb 26 10:36 FileProve.txt
-rwxr-x--- 1 root CR-USER 229 Feb 26 11:47 LancioTest512Mb
-rwxr-x--- 1 root CR-USER 509 Feb 26 12:06 LancioTestParalleloAPC2

I didn't find anything on the man page....is there a way to have a correct output?

Thanks in advance

Re: ls alignment

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:49:52 GMT

Hi:

The output is correct. What matters is that there are discrete _fields_ separated by whitespace. Hence, you can parse based on the field-number with "cut' or "awk' or Perl.

If you want to reformat the output, pipe the output to a tiny 'awk' script that uses a 'printf' statement.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: ls alignment

V. Nyga — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:50:16 GMT

Hi,

check with 'alias' if there's an alias command for 'ls'.
That would explain such a result.
Then you have to change that setting.
Maybe you get also a correct output with '/usr/bin/ls'?

What does 'which ls' says?

HTH
Volkmar

Re: ls alignment

Steven Schweda — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:59:47 GMT

> [...] is there a way to have a correct
> output?

Define "correct".

Write your own "ls"?

Use GNU "ls", which has more (possibly
useful) formatting options?

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/

Re: ls alignment

MarkSyder — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:25:43 GMT

Judging from the thread title, your complaint refers to the size field that is very large and therefore out of alignment.

You could write a script that takes the fields from ls and uses awk to align them.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: ls alignment

ertraccia — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:25:47 GMT

I used work with Tru64 and when I say correct I mean that ls give an output with correct alignment without options.

Actualy the only alias defined is:
ls=/usr/bin/ls (the default one)

I noticed that it do this only when the file size is bigger then 10Mb

Re: ls alignment

V. Nyga — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:34:41 GMT

>I noticed that it do this only when the file size is bigger then 10Mb

Yes, that's right, but why do you complain about that? Because you're more familiar with Tru64?
Well, ok - this is HP-UX ... I never had problems with this.
This *is correct* for HP-UX.

BTW you only see this with the 'll' or 'ls -l' command :-)

Volkmar

Re: ls alignment

ertraccia — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:24:37 GMT

If it was for me....it would be fine....but this is what Customer asked me (after using Tru64 for lots of years)

Anyway, I think that awk solution should be ok, for now.

Thanks to everyone ;-)

Re: ls alignment

ertraccia — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:25:58 GMT

See above