Aleksey Cheusov skrev:
Thanks all for your help,indeed stat -f "%Mp%Lp:%u:%g:%N"does the trickOn Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:26:10PM -0600, Robby Griffin wrote:>> Don't forget you can stat multiple files, too: >> >> stat -f "%N %u %g %Mp%Lp" filename1 filename2 ...but I have a *large* number of files.. and would expect a shell error using them all on one line...cat file_list.txt | xargs stat -f "%N %u %g %Mp%Lp"
And of course that *will* be a problem if he has a large number of files, since there are limits on how long lines are acceptable...
xargs causes the same deal, and have the same limit as the shell itself. You pass a large line to the stat program.
If indeed the number of files are so large that this is a problem, then he needs to process the files fewer at a time. There are several ways to go about doing that. Putting the result in a file, and then split the file, and go through each piece independently for instance, or use find in a more creative way...
Johnny
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