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Advanced LS Output using Find for Formatted/Sortable File Stat info

Terminal - Advanced LS Output using Find for Formatted/Sortable File Stat info
find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'
2010-06-10 22:03:08
User: AskApache
Functions: find
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Advanced LS Output using Find for Formatted/Sortable File Stat info

I love this function because it tells me everything I want to know about files, more than stat, more than ls. It's very useful and infinitely expandable.

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n' | sort -rgbS 50%

00761 drwxrw---x askapache:askapache 777:666 [06/10/10 | 06/10/10 | 06/10/10] [d] /web/cg/tmp

The key is:

# -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'

which believe it or not took me hundreds of tweaking before I was happy with the output.

You can easily use this within a function to do whatever you want.. This simple function works recursively if you call it with -r as an argument, and sorts by file permissions.

lsl(){ O="-maxdepth 1";sed -n '/-r/!Q1'<<<$@ &&O=;find $PWD $O -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'|sort -rgbS 50%; }

Personally I'm using this function because:

lll () { local a KS="1 -r -g"; sed -n '/-sort=/!Q1' <<< $@ && KS=`sed 's/.*-sort=\(.*\)/\1/g'<<<$@`; find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'|sort -k$KS -bS 50%; }

# i can sort by user

lll -sort=3

# or sort by group reversed

lll -sort=4 -r

# and sort by modification time

lll -sort=6

If anyone wants to help me make this function handle multiple dirs/files like ls, go for it and I would appreciate it.. Something very minimal would be awesome.. maybe like:

for a; do lll $a; done

Note this uses the latest version of GNU find built from source, easy to build from gnu ftp tarball. Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

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Thx, this looks fantastic.

Comment by oernii2 153 weeks and 6 days ago

Yeah I love it.. Here's the main function I use instead of ls, which I save as /usr/local/bin/ll or ~/bin/ll

#!/bin/sh -r _W=$((${COLUMNS:-80} - 20 ));[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && command ls -vlaph -w $_W --color=always||for a;do command ls -vlaph -w $_W --color=always "$a";done; exit $?
Comment by AskApache 153 weeks and 5 days ago

had to install the GNU findutils to get this to work as the OSX version of `find` doesn't have the -printf option.

Very nice.

Comment by fukr 82 weeks and 4 days ago

And gnu sed.

Comment by fukr 82 weeks and 4 days ago

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