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From: jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: abcfd20 downtime
Message-ID: <646@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 90 09:05:33 GMT
References: <TADGUY.90Dec20172214@abi2.larc.nasa.gov> <TADGUY.90Dec29120827@ab20.larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ
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tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes:

>I'm also messing with the ftp server again, so there may be brief
>periods where things may not work right.  If there's a persistent
>problem, send mail...

Well, I, or maybe I should say dfilter noticed that the "dir" command
now omits the group field of the normal dir listing.  This through dfilter
for a loop.  Yes, I know about the index file at the ftp root.  It just
insn't updated often enough for me, so I use dfilter :-).  

Anyways, here's a quick and dirty awk script which will make dfilter happy:

{
   if($3 != "")
      printf("%s %2s %8s %8s %8s %s %2s %5s %s\n",
             $1,$2,$3,"daemon",$4,$5,$6,$7,$8);
   else
      printf("%s\n",$0);
}

Just run the "dir" output through it, and redirect the output to some file,
then run dfilter on the output file.

BTW, I usually run dfilter on Unix boxes, but this script also works for gawk
on the Amiga.  The script will also run as a Unix shell script if made
into a one-liner like so: 

#!/bin/sh
awk '{ if($3 != "") printf("%s %2s %8s %8s %8s %s %2s %5s %s\n",$1,$2,$3,
"daemon", $4,$5,$6,$7,$8); else printf("%s\n",$0); }' $1


Just make sure all the awk command is a one-liner with no CRs...

C'ya,
Jim
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