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Devrim
Asked: 2010-01-10 02:15:53 +0800 CST

ls -m with more info?

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i need to store directory information in a way that i can parse as json.

when i do ls -m it gives me comma separated values but no user/group/size info.

bash-3.2$ ls -mp
100CANON/, 2009-11-27_1540.swf, 2009-11-27_1546.swf, 2009-11-27_1551.swf, 2009-11-30_0149.png, 429355_1.sql,
429355_1.sql.zip, About Stacks.pdf, Acrobat.com.app/

ls -l is problematic to parse.

is there anyway you know that I can get ls -l info as comma(or anything) separated values?

shell

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You could use stat and define your own output format (see parameter -c).

    Example:

    $ stat -c '{"name": "%n", "size": "%s"}' *
{"name": "directory1", "size": "4096"}
{"name": "directory2", "size": "6"}
{"name": "file1", "size": "2070"}
{"name": "file2", "size": "83013"}
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  2. just combine the ls -l output with some other commands, like this ls -l | tr ' ' ',' | tr '\n' ','. This way you should get the output you need.

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