Simple Scripting Help

hopspitfire · 06-12-2007, 03:19 PM

I need to get a directory listing of all the perl scripts in /www and display them in the form of "Absolute Path" and "Last Time Accessed". There are a few commands I have been working with but none of them do what I need.

ls -dRlu $PWD/* - only lists the current directory, does not search recursively

awk '{ print $0 }' /www/findoutput-all.txt - findoutput-all.txt is a file with a listing of all the scripts, but I cannot get the output into 'ls'

Can you steer me in the right direction?

MensaWater · 06-12-2007, 04:09 PM

ls `cat /www/findoutput-all.txt`

Note the above are back ticks rather than single quotes. Putting a command line in back ticks tells it to first execute that THEN use its output as the input for the original command (ls).

Above assumes you don't have spaces in your file names.

hopspitfire · 06-12-2007, 04:46 PM

That worked perfectly! Thank you, I completely forgot about the back ticks.