topic Re: Unix / Using ls command or the find command in SAS Enterprise Guide

Unix / Using ls command or the find command

alepage — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:08:29 GMT

Hello,

I have tried to use the following find command

find -maxdepth 1 -type f /dwh_operation/sasprocess/smp_production/smp_ref/sasmacro

to get the file listing into that directory but without getting those from the subfolders.

Also, I have tried the ls command:

ls /dwh_operation/sasprocess/smp_production/smp_ref/sasmacro -l --time-style=long-iso

so, I am getting all the information on a file that I need but I am getting also subfoldername into the listing as well as the listing of the files hosted into those subfolder.

Is there a way to use the ls command to get the listing of the file only in the specify folder not those from the subfolder

Thanks in advance for you help.

Re: Unix / Using ls command or the find command

Tom — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:44:32 GMT

I don't quite get what the question is.

If you want to limit the ls command from diving into the subdirectories use the -d option.

ls -ld /dwh_operation/sasprocess/smp_production/smp_ref/sasmacro/*

If you want to get all of the information of the ls command output from the find command there are options to do that. Look at the -printf option.

Examples:

Here is meaning of the -printf options used.
 %p - Filename without path.
 %s - Size in bytes.
 %Td%Tb%TY:%TT - LASTMOD in SAS DATETIME format.
   %T - Means use the last time file was modified.
     d - Day of month (01-31)
     b - Short month string (Jan, Feb, ...)
     Y - Four digit year
     T - Time (HH:MM:SS.sssssss)
 %Y - Type of the file, including following symbolic links.
 %M - File permissions in sybolic form (-rwxrwxrwx).
 %u - Name of the file owner.
 %g - Name of the file group.
 %h - Path of the file, including path specified on command line.
 %l - Path to the target of a symbolic link (else blank).
 \n - Add linefeed to end of string.

Re: Unix / Using ls command or the find command

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:49:39 GMT

You need to use a maxdepth of 0 to stay in the root directory of your search.