Re: Get directories names
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:32:40PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> David Jardine wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:09:51PM -0500, Tong wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the
> >>current directory in RH:
> >>
> >>ls -l <criteria> | grep ^d | cut -c57-
> >>
> >>but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed.
> >
> >
> >It is for me, and the above command works perfectly.
> >
>
> It is?
Nope. Observe some partial output:
mauritsvanrees:~# ls -l
drwxr-x--- 3 root root 256 2004-09-24 16:18 commands
maurits@mauritsvanrees:~$ ls -l
drwx------ 3 maurits maurits 304 2004-08-30 21:13 Desktop
drwx------ 118 maurits maurits 3184 2004-11-01 23:15 az
maurits@mauritsvanrees:/opt$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 maurits maurits 19194716 2004-08-01 00:33 02.Gebed.wav
The position of the filename is influenced by:
- size of the largest dir
- lenghth of user and group name
- size of file/dir
- maybe some more.
So yes, `file' is much better.
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