How do I assign ls to an array in Linux Bash?
It would be this array=($(ls -d */)) EDIT: See Gordon Davisson’s solution for a more general answer (i.e. if your filenames contain special characters). This answer is merely a syntax correction.
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How can I get a recursive full-path listing, one line per file?
Use find: find . find /home/dreftymac If you want files only (omit directories, devices, etc): find . -type f find /home/dreftymac -type f
List files recursively in Linux CLI with path relative to the current directory
Use find: find . -name \*.txt -print On systems that use GNU find, like most GNU/Linux distributions, you can leave out the -print.
How to get file creation date/time in Bash/Debian?
Unfortunately your quest won’t be possible in general, as there are only 3 distinct time values stored for each of your files as defined by the POSIX standard (see Base Definitions section 4.8 File Times Update) Each file has three distinct associated timestamps: the time of last data access, the time of last data modification, … Read more
How can I generate a list of files with their absolute path in Linux?
If you give find an absolute path to start with, it will print absolute paths. For instance, to find all .htaccess files in the current directory: find “$(pwd)” -name .htaccess or if your shell expands $PWD to the current directory: find “$PWD” -name .htaccess find simply prepends the path it was given to a relative … Read more
List files not matching a pattern?
Use egrep-style extended pattern matching. ls !(*.jar) This is available starting with bash-2.02-alpha1. Must first be enabled with shopt -s extglob As of bash-4.1-alpha there is a config option to enable this by default.
awk in bash with ls and variable
This is exactly why you should not use UPPER_CASE_VARS. $PATH is a variable used by the shell to find executables on your system. As soon as you over-write it with user input, your script can no longer find anything that does not reside in whatever the input was. In this case, you entered /bin, so … Read more
Listing only directories using ls in Bash?
*/ is a pattern that matches all of the subdirectories in the current directory (* would match all files and subdirectories; the / restricts it to directories). Similarly, to list all subdirectories under /home/alice/Documents, use ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/
how can i show the size of files in /proc? it should not be size zero
Those are not really files on disk (as you mention) but they are also not files in memory – the names in /proc correspond to calls into the running kernel in the operating system, and the contents are generated on the fly. The system doesn’t know how large the files would be without generating them, … Read more