1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 | #!/bin/bash #Write the shell program which produces a report from the output of ls -l in the following format # file1 # file2 # [DIR] test/ # Total regular files : 7 # Total directories : 4 # Total symbolic links : 0 # Total size of regular files : 2940 # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # This is a free shell script under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above # Copyright (C) 2005 nixCraft project. # Feedback/comment/suggestions : http://cyberciti.biz/fb/ # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC) # Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- rf=0 dir=0 syml=0 totsize=0 output="" for f in * do if [ -f $f ] then output=$f ((rf++)) size=$(ls -l "${f}" | awk '{ print $5}') totsize=$((totsize+size)) fi if [ -d $f ] then output="[DIR] $f/" ((dir++)) fi if [ -L $f ] then output="[LINK] $f@" ((syml++)) fi echo $output done echo "Total regular files : $rf" echo "Total directories : $dir" echo "Total symbolic links : $syml" echo "Total size of regular files : $totsize" |
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Thanks a lot for all these examples. Very useful to learn shell scripts for a newbie like me :)
Hi
there is a problem with your script
when you execute it , if there is any file or directory which it’s name contains ” ” ( i mean space ) , you would get some error.
to deal this error you should modify all your if clause to :
if [ -f “$f” ]
another note is that , we expect a “ls” comand to accept an argument as a path , for example : ls /etc/ —> should list all the files and directories in /etc/.
to deal this i suggest you to modify these lines :
output=””
cd “$1” ##this line is added between the 2 lines you had##
for f in *
.
.
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echo “Total size of regular files : $totsize”
cd “-” > /dev/null ## and this line is added at the end of script##
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thnx for your nice ideas in scripting
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Best Regards , H.Noroozi
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easy to understand and gives a good example. thanks to nixcraft!!