topic Re: printf in Operating System - Linux

printf

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:26:25 GMT

This command works for linux.
abcd@xyz:~> find /tmp -printf %m -maxdepth 0 | grep 1777
1777

How can I achieve this in HP-UX 11.11? Thanks in advance.

Re: printf

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:45:58 GMT

You will have to install the Gnu version of find or choose to code your script in a more portable manner.

Re: printf

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:51:24 GMT

Here is what you need although I am not fond of non-portable solutions.

http://hpux.its.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/Gnu/findutils-4.2.28/

Re: printf

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:08:38 GMT

Thanks. Is there any command/syntax through which I can get the permission of a file or directory in the number format?
like 1777 etc..

Re: printf

Dennis Handly — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:29:11 GMT

Neither -printf nor -maxdepth work on HP-UX. You first will have to explain what they do?

There is -depth option.

I assume -printf %m prints the mode? To do that, you need:
$ find /tmp -exec ll + | grep "^lrwxrwxrwx"

Re: printf

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:39:56 GMT

Hi Sanjiv:

> Is there any command/syntax through which I can get the permission of a file or directory in the number format?

# perl -le '$f=shift;printf("%04o %-s\n",(stat($f))[2] & 07777,$f)' file

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: printf

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:51:15 GMT

Hi (again) Sanjiv:

Since you began this query with the piped output of 'find', here's another Perl variation that you can use in a pipeline:

# find /path -type f -print|perl -nle '{printf("%04o %-s\n",(stat($_))[2] & 07777,$_)}'

...OR (better yet) do everything in Perl:

# perl -MFile::Find -le 'find(sub{printf("%04o %-s\n",(stat($_))[2] & 07777,$File::Find::name)},@ARGV)' /path

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: printf

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:36:32 GMT

Ok. I am using the following command for now:
ls -ld /tmp | grep "^drwxrwxrwt"