Hi *,

I think they had a DOS command to just print out a directory listing in
'bare' format "dir /B" or something like that.

While using ls in Unix/Linux. You get something like:

// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
sh-3.00# pwd
/home/knoppix
sh-3.00# ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 160 Sep 19 23:43 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 40 Apr 19 2004 tmp
sh-3.00# ls -Rl
..:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 160 Sep 19 23:43 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 40 Apr 19 2004 tmp

../Desktop:
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 1014 Sep 19 23:50 CD-ROM [cdrom1]
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 1000 Sep 19 23:50 CD-ROM [cdrom]
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 686 Mar 31 2003 Floppy
-rw-r--r-- 2 knoppix knoppix 189 Sep 19 23:42 KNOPPIX.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 4801 Sep 19 23:43 trash.desktop

../tmp:
total 0
sh-3.00#
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

How could you get something like this:

sh-3.00# ls (?)
drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 160 Sep 19 23:43 /home/knoppix/Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 40 Apr 19 2004 /home/knoppix/tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 1014 Sep 19 23:50 /home/knoppix/Desktop/CD-ROM
[cdrom1]
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 1000 Sep 19 23:50 /home/knoppix/Desktop/CD-ROM
[cdrom]
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 686 Mar 31 2003 /home/knoppix/Desktop/Floppy
-rw-r--r-- 2 knoppix knoppix 189 Sep 19
23:42 /home/knoppix/Desktop/KNOPPIX.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 4801 Sep 19
23:43 /home/knoppix/Desktop/trash.desktop

or just

/home/knoppix/Desktop
/home/knoppix/tmp
/home/knoppix/Desktop/CD-ROM [cdrom1]
/home/knoppix/Desktop/CD-ROM [cdrom]
/home/knoppix/Desktop/Floppy
/home/knoppix/Desktop/KNOPPIX.desktop
/home/knoppix/Desktop/trash.desktop

Notice that you would get the fully qualified file names.

I need to get to all reachable files for a given user (all existing files
for root, e.g.) in a file and then process this file (with the
saved'/redirected output) in stead of going through the directory hierarchy
and get this info for each file.

All this info is in the fs right? What is the most efficiet way to get if
from there?

Thanks

dan weiner

Have you tried using "find" instead of ls? It's much more configurable,
and always gives paths as well as filenames.

gbussi

Hello,

I think you should try the 'find' command.
Use "find ." to find all files in the current dir.
Use "find . -exec cat {} \;" to cat them all, and so on.
You can exec any command in this way.

Bye!

Giovanni

nan li

In bash
1. Try 'find $PWD'
2. Try 'find . -user root -exec ls -l {} \;'
If you really want to have a file in between, try '
TMPFILE=/tmp/tmp1; find . -user nan > $TMPFILE ; (while read t ; do ls
-l $t; done ) < $TMPFILE'

Nan

nan li

In bash,

1. try 'find $PWD'
2. try 'find . -user root -exec ls {} \;'

gbussi

Hi,
you should try "find ." to have the list, or "find . -exec cat {} \;"
to cat them all.
Bye
Giovanni

nobody

what about:

du -a <directory> |awk '{ print $2 }'