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[Mashed Potato]

This is a question I have to answer. I have looked but I cant figure out how to awk a dir. Please help. If you don't want to answer it for me, could you direct me to where I could find the answer? Thank you....here it is:

cd to the /midterm directory. Using awk, generate an output that contains the file entry names and file type/permissions only of the file entries within the directory.

Separate the file entry names and file type/permissions columns by a colon 🙂).

The output should resemble the following:

filename : permissions

A) What awk command string did you use?

>awk '{print filename: permission}' midterm *filename: permission being the entry I do not know.

Midterm is a dir, could I ls -l saving the output to a file and then go from there? If so, what is the command to save the output to file. Can it be done with one string?

 

[Nothinman]

What they probably want you to do is pipe the output from ls -l and redirect the output from awk to a file. And if you google 'awk variables' you should be able to figure out what to replace "filename: permission" with.

 

[Mashed Potato]

Got it!

ls -l | awk '{print$9,$1}'

Thanks,

mashed

 

[nweaver]

the pipe is probably one of the best things about *nix shells.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: nweaver
the pipe is the best things about *nix shells.

Fixed. 😉 Without the pipe unix is poop.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: nweaver
the pipe is the best things about *nix shells.

Fixed. 😉 Without the pipe unix is poop.

I use it every single day 😀