[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

Ron Kelley rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
Sun Dec 29 21:18:13 EST 2013


Try "ls -1b" 

This should give you a barebones directory listing - one file per line.

Thanks,

-Ron

On Dec 29, 2013, at 9:04 PM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has never been my forte and just can't seem to figure out what I need
> to do.
> 
> I've got a file that basically has a directory listing. I need to parse out
> everything but the filenames. The format of the document is basically like
> this:
> 
> 11/09/2013  11:49 AM         7,887,098 this is filename 1.txt
> 11/05/2013  08:09 PM        11,652,690 this is filename 2.sh
> 
> Basically I need to strip the date, time and bytes and just leave the
> filename. Filenames will have spaces and various characters, but it is
> always after the bytes and spaces are what separate everything.
> 
> This is on an UbuntuStudio 12.04 box.
> 
> I figure I could do something with sed or awk or similar, but I just don't
> have a good understanding of them and my google searches did not prove
> helpful (probably not using the right terms in the search).
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
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