Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder
Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> writes:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Matthew Smith wrote:
>
>> Quoth Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. at 14/10/09 23:12...
>>> Your font has betrayed you. The single-column-mode option is "-1"
>>> (dash-one), your messages says you tried the option "-l"
>>> (dash-ell) which requested a
>>> detailed (long) listing.
>>
>> Aha! Sure looked like a lower-case L. Think I need to bump up the
>> font size for this little screen! Thank you for pointing that out.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I still can't get the desired effect.
>>
>> The ls -1 (#1) gives me my single-column list but piping it to sed
>> 1,2d' still gives me the entire directory listing, each item
>> separated by a single space. Can't see any reason from the sed
>> manpage why this should be and can't locate my awk & sed book (may
>> have left it at last job.)
>
> ls -1 |sed '1,2d'
>
> gives me a single column.
Right, but when I did
echo $(ls -1 | sed '1,2d')
as others suggested for testing I got the same result as he did. It
is the echo that is putting everything on a single line.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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