Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:12:21 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> To: chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: txt file from ls -la? Message-ID: <20020110165555.A5440-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> In-Reply-To: <200201101636863.SM01552@there>
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, chip wrote:
> I would like to create a file I can import into mysql that consists of the
> names and sizes of all the files in a directory. The files are images. I
> tried ls -la > images.txt, expecting to get all the info from ls -la, but
> that gave me the file names only. I could just type them all into the
> database but there are apr. 2500 files, so the file import would be much
> easier. How can I get the names and sizes only into a text file?
Something like this would do the job:
cd /image/directory/
ls -l | awk '{print $9 "\t" $5}' > /tmp/images.txt
That would give you a tab delimited file with the filenames in the first
column and the file sizes in the second column.
Ken Bolingbroke
hacker@bolingbroke.com
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