On Monday 02 March 2009 00:22:15 Ray Parrish wrote: > but it would be nice if the man pages would at least mention things like > "this parameter has to be quoted to work" or use a * on the end of the > path to activate the --recursive option. It took me hours to find that > out with the ls command, see following output.
the shell expanding * has nothing to do with any specific command. like Chet said, that's a basic premise of using a *nix system that any half decent book out there would cover. > And as another note, even 'though I've used the -d switch to show only > directories in the output I'm still getting filenames with it. I also > expected the command to keep recursing into the subdirectories of /proc/ > and list the directories there, but no such luck. What gives? Here's > what the man page says - this is the "bash" list, not coreutils (which owns the "ls" program). if you want clearer info there, talk to them. > And you wouldn't believe the amount of time it took me to formulate the > following command to get what I wanted. > > find -maxdepth 1 -printf '%f %T+\n' | sort -s -t ' ' -k 2.1nr -k 2.6n -k > 2.9n -k 2.12r -k 2.15 -k 2.18 > > From the find man page below you will note that it doesn't mention the > fact that the printf parameters need to be quoted to work. yet another basic issue not specific to any command. reading a book would address this. > And here is the skimpy info in the sort man page for the -k parameter. - sort is from coreutils, not bash. -mike
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