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Handy shell file lister for cygwin or *NIX

John C. Zastrow / / Uncategorized

This tip is useful for any system with a useful implementaion of

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ls, wc, and awk
ls, wc, and awk
. However, some options may need to be modified. For example, the
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ls
ls
options work best on linux, though they suffice on my cygwin install on Windows when my username does not have a space in it

The commands for running this trick usefully on cygwin/windows is:

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ls -ghGR --full-time | awk '{ print $1"\t" $3 "\t" $4 "\t" $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 }' | unix2dos > filelist.txt && wc -l filelist.txt >> filelist.txt
ls -ghGR --full-time | awk '{ print $1"\t" $3 "\t" $4 "\t" $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 }' | unix2dos > filelist.txt && wc -l filelist.txt >> filelist.txt

to produce the following listing:

[snip]
total
-rwx——+ 16K 2008-06-09 Export_Output.shp.xml
drwx——+ 0 2008-06-24 java
drwx——+ 0 2008-06-24 licenses
-rwx——+ 42K 2008-05-29 openoffice.org-activex.cab
-rwx——+ 1.8M 2008-05-29 openoffice.org-base.cab
-rwx——+ 18M 2008-05-29 openoffice.org-core05.cab
-rwx——+ 28M 2008-05-29 openoffice.org-core06.cab
-rwx——+ 3.7M 2008-05-29 openoffice.org-core07.cab
-rwx——+ 2.4M 2008-05-29 openoffice.org-writer.cab
-rwx——+ 37K 2008-05-29 openoffice.org-xsltfilter.cab
-rwx——+ 4.2M 2008-05-29 openofficeorg24.msi
drwx——+ 0 2008-06-24 readmes
-rwx——+ 217 2008-05-29 setup.ini
-rwx——+ 500K 2008-06-19 stormwater.mdb

./java:
total
-rwx——+ 16M 2008-01-15 jre-6u4-windows-i586-p.exe

./licenses:
total

158 filelist.txt