doing a ls from a directory (not the current) giving the files without path

Byenary · 06-25-2008, 03:55 AM

Hello,

Im looking for an instruction like this
ls /home/user/folder/*.pdf
But it should only give a list of the filenames and leave out the path, I could script this but im sure there must be a cleaner method using ls but i can't seem to find it or overlooking it.

THx

unSpawn · 06-25-2008, 05:02 AM

You could 'find /home/user/folder -printf "%f\n"' or '\ls find /home/user/folder/*.pdf|while read f; do echo "${f//*\//}"; done'. Watch for spaces though.

Swagata Paul · 06-25-2008, 05:07 AM

No way.
U can write a script.....like 1) change directory 2) list files 3) change to previous dir.

OR

U can filter out the unwanted parts.

Mr. C. · 06-25-2008, 05:09 AM

(cd /home/usr/folder; ls *.pdf)

schneidz · 06-25-2008, 09:41 AM

how bout

Code:

ls -1 /home/user/folder/ | grep pdf$

colucix · 06-25-2008, 11:35 AM

or

Code:

ls /home/user/folder/*.pdf | xargs -I{} basename {}

with the -I option of xargs unquoted blank spaces do not terminate the input item, so having blank spaces in the file names is not an issue here.