Advanced LS Output using Find for Formatted/Sortable File Stat info
find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n' | sort -rgbS 50%
00761 drwxrw---x askapache:askapache 777:666 [06/10/10 | 06/10/10 | 06/10/10] [d] /web/cg/tmp
The key is:
# -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'
which believe it or not took me hundreds of tweaking before I was happy with the output.
You can easily use this within a function to do whatever you want.. This simple function works recursively if you call it with -r as an argument, and sorts by file permissions.
lsl(){ O="-maxdepth 1";sed -n '/-r/!Q1'<<<$@ &&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
$ 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 00755 drwxr-xr-x askapache:askapache 777:666 [02/10/10 | 05/21/10 | 05/25/10] [d] /web/cg/java 00701 drwx-----x askapache:askapache 777:666 [06/10/10 | 06/10/10 | 06/10/10] [d] /web/cg/askapache-m 00644 -rw-r--r-- askapache:askapache 777:666 [02/10/10 | 01/12/10 | 06/01/10] [f] /web/cg/.htaccess $ find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n' 00644 -rw-r--r-- askapache:askapache 777:666 [03/22/10 | 03/22/10 | 05/25/10] [f] /h/wireshark/cmdarg_err.h 00755 drwxr-xr-x askapache:askapache 777:666 [03/22/10 | 03/22/10 | 05/25/10] [d] /h/wireshark/codecs 00644 -rw-r--r-- askapache:askapache 777:666 [03/22/10 | 03/22/10 | 05/25/10] [f] /h/wireshark/color.h 00644 -rw-r--r-- askapache:askapache 777:666 [03/22/10 | 03/22/10 | 05/25/10] [f] /h/wireshark/colorfilters
What do you think?
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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