Interesting use of gawk. I had alway used
... | awk '{print $1 $2}'
to print the fields I want, rather than blank out what I don't want.
Also, gawk works in my installation of cygwin, but awk doesn't.
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> I see what you have here. It is a listing that has been nicely
> arranged for people to look at, but is not very nice for a computer
> program to parse. I do have a program that could be used to put this
> back into a better form, but you can do the same thing with the
> original files. The command line that will produce a listing that
> shows the relevant information without pretty-printing is the
> following:
>
> $ tar cf - . | tar tvf - | gawk '{$1=$2=$5=""; print}' > /tmp/file.lst
>
> Explanation:
> The first "tar" command creates an annotated image file of everything
> in the directory and subdirectories.
> The second "tar" command reads the annotation from the image file.
> The "gawk" command keeps the relevant information, namely file size,
> date, and directory path and file name, discarding file attributes,
> owner, and time-of-day.
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