roland brouwers wrote:
Hello everybody,
Could someone tell me how I can List all filenames in a directory, sorted by time And then
Copying each file in this order to one file line by line, each line
preceded by the first character of the filename
That's a one-liner:
$ awk '{ print substr(FILENAME, 1, 1) $0 }' $(ls -rt) > /path/to/output
If you actually want to see the list of files, as suggested by the way you worded the request, use:
$ ls -1rt
Paul.
========================= Dear Paul,
This line $ awk '{ print substr(FILENAME, 1, 1) $0 }' $(ls -rt) > /path/to/output
puts the first char of filename on a separated line. How do I remove this linefeed, like echo -n does, so both will appear on the same line?
It doesn't behave like that here:
$ mkdir demo
$ cd demo
$ echo fred > a
$ echo jim > b
$ awk '{ print substr(FILENAME, 1, 1) $0 }' $(ls -rt)
afred
bjimThis will generate a linux textfile, I suppose. Is there a way of turning it into a Windows file with CrLf without using unix2dos?
A slight tweak:
$ awk '{ printf "%c%s\r\n", substr(FILENAME, 1, 1), $0 }' $(ls -rt) > /path/to/output
Paul.
