Hello
Please tell me how to create a list of files and folders, the list has to be made of names, extensions, and sizes only, no other information, and sizes should be human readable. Ive spent a a long time trying to do this....


thank you

ls -lh | awk '{print $8 " " $5}'

Example output:

1024_wallpaper.jpg 169K
Desktop 4.0K
Downloads 4.0K
IC 4.0K
Music 12K
PhD 4.0K
Pictures 4.0K
README_PXE.TXT 27K
UKPEW08 4.0K

thanx but the problem with this command is that it doesnt work if the files have spaces...

type this

du -h

Sample output

678M ./youtube
20K ./.nautilus/metafiles
552K ./.nautilus
4.0K ./.navicat/dosdevices
28K ./.navicat/Navicat
4.0K ./.navicat/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files
8.0K ./.navicat/drive_c/Program Files
180K ./.navicat/drive_c/windows/inf.done
4.0K ./.navicat/drive_c/windows/temp
4.0K ./.navicat/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Templates

This will give you the file sizes in human readable format and the name of the files including spaces. Unfortunately it prints the full path.

GNU find or stat
standard procedure: check the man page for more info

hmm dv502 thanx but this only gives information about folders, not individual files, the path is alright

ghostdog74:

stat command doesnt give size

find command doesnt give size in human readable format
and also gives full path starting from / but thats a minor detail I guess

prints name and size for all files in current directory.
prints dirname/name and size for all files in dirname. (Use sed to get rid of dirname in the output.)

For this solution (and anything with ls), you don't get actual directory size. For that, you need something like du.

Maybe you could tell us the overall objective---there might be a better way....

au contraire---du works on files and folders

yes it does....

my mistake...

du -a

lists files and directories

its ok


I found a way to do it: since it appears there is no single command that can do everything, Im gonna do it this way:

for i in *; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '.'`; done


ls -lh|awk '{print $5"\t"$9}' > list.txt



Two commands, so its a little more work but not much.

PS: it wasnt me who figure it out haha, someone told me in #linuxlatino

thanks pixellany

sample output from du -a

1049356 ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB
12 ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB
16 ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
439176 ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB
1049428 ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB
20 ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.BUP
1049456 ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB

I added h for human readable

du -ah

1.1G ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB
12K ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB
16K ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
429M ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB
1.1G ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB
20K ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.BUP
1.1G ./tmp/kde-david/k9copy/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB

ohh didnt notice this option when i checked du --help
Good to know, thanx, but Im going to stick with the other 2 commands because it looks better

Doing it this way, renames your file(s) that has spaces with dots. But if you want to preserved your files without renaming them, the du -ah is as close to what you wanted in your post, a list of files in human readable file sizes.

Here is something similar to du -ah, it lists
the files in the current directory.
Put a space between the apostrophe. It's not ''

I have a script somewhere that does the diskdir job, if you d like compatible with windows (except archives).

http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/diskdir_extended.html

Diskdir is the very best solution for you (try with wine)