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Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu May 19 16:02:51 UTC 2005
roland brouwers wrote:
> roland brouwers wrote:
>
>>Hello everybody,
>>
>>Could someone tell me how I can
>>List all filenames in a directory, sorted by time
>>And then
>>Copying each file in this order to one file line by line, each line
>>preceded by the first character of the filename
>
>
> That's a one-liner:
>
> $ awk '{ print substr(FILENAME, 1, 1) $0 }' $(ls -rt) > /path/to/output
>
> If you actually want to see the list of files, as suggested by the way
> you worded the request, use:
>
> $ ls -1rt
>
> Paul.
>
> =========================
> Dear Paul,
>
> This line
> $ awk '{ print substr(FILENAME, 1, 1) $0 }' $(ls -rt) > /path/to/output
>
> puts the first char of filename on a separated line.
> How do I remove this linefeed, like echo -n does, so both will appear on
> the same line?
It doesn't behave like that here:
$ mkdir demo
$ cd demo
$ echo fred > a
$ echo jim > b
$ awk '{ print substr(FILENAME, 1, 1) $0 }' $(ls -rt)
afred
bjim
> This will generate a linux textfile, I suppose. Is there a way of
> turning it into a Windows file with CrLf without using unix2dos?
A slight tweak:
$ awk '{ printf "%c%s\r\n", substr(FILENAME, 1, 1), $0 }' $(ls -rt) >
/path/to/output
Paul.
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