On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Fred James wrote: > Not sure why the need for a "one-liner"?
Fred, There is no such 'need.' > This bit of script (SH/BASH) extracts a list of files (excluding > directories). From there my approach would be to either ... > feed it to AWK I don't need a list of directories as I copied those files from the cdrom disk to specific and known directories. I like the idea of using awk; for whatever the reason I did not see this as the most parsimonious solution. I'm probably mistaken, but my understanding is that sed would be used within a file to make changes line-by-line, while awk can be fed by the 'ls' command. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
