Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!mipos3!omepd!merlyn
From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: type discriminating directory listing
Summary: bug in code
Message-ID: <4437@omepd.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 14:08:49 GMT
References: <LAWRENCE.89May8010357@consult1.its.rpi.edu> <14660011@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Sender: news@omepd.UUCP
Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
Lines: 22
In-reply-to: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)

In article <14660011@hpsal2.HP.COM>, morrell@hpsal2 (Michael Morrell) writes:
|   You can also force multicolumn output using the "-C" option to "ls".
| Thus, "ls -CF | grep '[/@]$'" will work.

Well, only if a directory or symbolic link shows up as the *last* file
in a line.  The other solution I saw, with
    ls -F | grep '[/@]$' | pr -5 -l1 -t
is probably the only way to do it in one line with existing tools.
(You need to adjust the "5" by trial-and-error.)

Another bizarre solution is:
    ls -CFd `find . '(' -type d -o -type l ')' -print`
which produces roughly the same list, if you don't mind getting
subdirectories as well.  And, I dislike having to 'ls' a file that
'find' already saw, but that's life.

Just a UN*X Hacker,
-- 
***** PLEASE IGNORE THE ADDRESS IN THE HEADER *****
/=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095===\
{ <merlyn@agora.hf.intel.com> ...!uunet!agora.hf.intel.com!merlyn    }
\=Cute quote: "Welcome to Oregon... home of the California Raisins!"=/