On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:43:12PM -0400, A. Costa wrote:
Typical problem: suppose we want to parse 'ls -l' to get file sizes.
Your first problem is trying to use ls as programmatic input. It's really a utility intended for human readability. Try using stat, either with -t or --printf, or find --printf.
If you really, really want to parse ls output, use something like awk or perl; cut is just not the right tool for that job.
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