How can I list all files but not directories in a given directory and show the inode-numbers.
Something like ls -li | grep ^- does not work since the inode number is shown in the beginning of the line.
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Possible duplicate: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61533/… – slm♦ Jul 6 '13 at 14:35
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There are multiple solutions. Assuming you do not have a filename starting with -
ls -li | grep " -"
ls -li | awk '/ -/'
If a directory contains -, it can be fixed by
ls -li | grep "[0-9][0-9]* -"
ls -li | awk '$2 ~ "-.{9}"'
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You could use find:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec ls -li '{}' \;
or, to get ls-like output:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '%i %M %n %u %g %kK %Tc %p\n'
Parsing ls is a bad idea since it can often lead to trouble.
If you really want to use ls directly, you could do this:
ls -li | gawk '$2!~/d/'
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You might want to use
+instead of\;in your first example (if your version offindsupports is) so as not to fork too much onls. Might also want to add\! -name '.*'so as not to list hidden files. – gniourf_gniourf Jul 6 '13 at 14:36 -
1Oh, and if you want to parse the output of
ls, and if yourlsversion supports the-poption, you canls -lip | grep -v '/$'– gniourf_gniourf Jul 6 '13 at 14:49 -
@gniourf_gniourf since the
+is not always available and we are only runninglswhich is not too hard on the machine I don't think it is worth it. As for hidden files, I consider listing them a feature not a bug :). – terdon♦ Jul 6 '13 at 14:49
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Another find alternative:
find -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%i %p\n"
Or yet another:
find -maxdepth 1 -type f -ls
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You might want to use
maxdepth 1to mimicls. Otherwise, this will find all files in all subfolders recursively. – terdon♦ Jul 6 '13 at 14:31
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Here's an alternative way using the commands tree and grep. Grep is used to filter out the directory entries:
$ tree --inodes -f -F|grep -v "/$"
Example
$ tree --inodes -f -F|grep -v "/$"|less
.
|-- [10370679] ./a
|-- [10359494] ./a.bash*
| |-- [10359495] ./alsa/alsa-info.sh*
| `-- [10370145] ./alsa/alsa-info.txt.v8hSmCT2Rf
| | | |-- [11147371] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/bin/m2*
| | | |-- [11147367] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/bin/m2.bat
| | | |-- [11147368] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/bin/m2.conf
| | | |-- [11147372] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/bin/mvn*
| | | |-- [11147369] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/bin/mvn.bat
| | | |-- [11147373] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/bin/mvnDebug*
| | | `-- [11147370] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/bin/mvnDebug.bat
| | | `-- [11147378] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/boot/classworlds-1.1.jar
| | | `-- [11147374] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/conf/settings.xml
| | | `-- [11147376] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/lib/maven-2.0.9-uber.jar
| | |-- [11147363] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/LICENSE.txt
| | |-- [11147364] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/NOTICE.txt
| | `-- [11147365] ./apps/apache-maven-2.0.9/README.txt
The above incorporates the directory hierarchy into the lines for each file, and also makes use of the -F switch so that tree appends a trailing / to each line that's a directory. Utilizing that feature, we're able to grab any lines that now have this trailing / and omit them.
