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How do I tell grep to only print out lines if the "filename" matches when I'm piping through ls? I want it to ignore everything on each line until after the timestamp. There must be some easy way to do this on a single command.
As you can see, without it, if I searched for the file "rwx", it would return not only the line with rwx.c, but also the first three lines because of permissions. I was going to use AWK but I want it to display the whole last line if I search for "rwx".
Any ideas?
EDIT: Thanks for the hacks below. However, it would be great to have a more bug-free method. For example, if I had a file named "rob rob", I wouldn't be able to use the stated solutions.
drwxrwxr-x 2 rob rob 4096 2012-03-04 18:03 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 rob rob 4096 2012-03-04 12:38 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 rob rob 13783 2012-03-04 18:03 a.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 4294 2012-03-04 18:02 function1.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 273 2012-03-04 12:54 function1.c~
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 16 2012-03-04 18:02 rwx.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 16 2012-03-04 18:02 rob rob
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Since many files contain database references, you might get a lot of data on output, so if you are only interested in all the files containing matching text, you can use the grep -l option. This option of grep only shows filenames that contain matching text.
If you want the ls command output to only contain file/directory names and their respective sizes, then you can do that using the -h option in combination with -l/-s command line option.
If you want to display only the filename, you can use basename command. find infa/bdm/server/source/path -type f -iname "source_fname_*. txt" Shell command to find the latest file name in the command task!
Linux or UNIX-like system use the ls command to list files and directories. However, ls does not have an option to list only directories. You can use combination of ls command, find command, and grep command to list directory names only. You can use the find command too.
The following will list only file name, and one file in each row.
$ ls -1
To include . files
$ ls -1a
Please note that the argument is number "1", not letter "l".
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