opendir() and @dirlist()
Enrique Arredondo
henry at vegena.net
Wed Nov 16 16:45:28 PST 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stockler" <bob at trebor.iglou.com>
To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
Cc: "filePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: opendir() and @dirlist()
> Enrique Arredondo wrote (on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:59:50PM -0800):
> [snip]
>
> | Very Nice!!! , It shows all of the files no matter the size! even
> | directories.
>
> A lot easier to use, and more versitle, than using the
> filePro specific commands, isn't it? Thank the authors
> of filePro for these other features, applicable to any
> files on your system.
>
> I still don't know what OS you're on, but if you're on
> UNIX or Linux it's susceptible to a lot of variations.
>
> For instance, the SYSTEM argument could be modified:
>
> 1 - To eliminate directories:
>
> ls -l | grep -v '^d' | awk '{ print $NF }'
>
> 2 - To return only directories:
>
> ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{ print $NF }'
>
> 3 - To put output in time order, rather than name order:
>
> ls -t
> ls -rt
>
> and any more of the options you might find useful.
>
> Bob
>
> PS - For nit pickers - I know that the use of grep in a
> pipeline to awk is wasteful. I used grep in the
> examples above for brief clarity of the ideas.
>
> --
> Bob Stockler +-+ bob at trebor.iglou.com +-+
> http://members.iglou.com/trebor
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My cgi script works great, now all my docs are being displayed correctly.
Two thumbs up! Thanks!!!!
FYI: I'm using unix OSR 5.0.7 , thanks again.
And thanks to all that contributed to this threath
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