need terminal command to list files

Enter the following into the Terminal:

ls -RSl

followed by typing a space, dragging the folder into the Terminal window, pressing Enter, and then sorting the output by the fifth column.

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ls -SLl <path> | egrep *.fbx

As noted previously you can get the <path> to your top directory by dragging it onto the command line.

edit: egrep
edit edit: 2point's is faster

Message was edited by: mkramer

Message was edited by: mkramer

Might have been because I assumed that you would be in the home folder when you issued the command which would mean it would look through all folders subordinate to the home folder no matter how deeply nested.

I ran it from my home folder for files with .txt and it did what I expected.

ls -lRS | grep '.txt'

mkramer: I couldn't tell the difference in performance between egrep and grep (not that my file selection was particularly large).

Chris

iBod,

hooley dooley..... this is getting interesting.

I tried that with my txt file listing but had to use a lower case el (after RS). It didn't like the upper case 'i'.

BTW, nice result too. Thanks iBod.

Chris

Message was edited by: 2point5

iBod wrote:
4th time's a charm?

ls -RSI <folder/with/the/sub-directories/to/check> | grep '\.fbx' | sort -n -k5

this doesn't sort by file size, it sorts by serial number, doesn't it?

Mine seems to work

Message was edited by: mkramer

It sorts by size on Linux! 🙂 Running a bit blind here...

PS. Think you want a \. in your grep (. alone is a wildcard)

Edit: No, you're right as well as I forgot I have an alias for ls setup here. -RSl (lower case L) seems to give the right results.

Edit 2: Which is what Chris said above (sorry, late over here, time for some sleep I reckon...)

Anyway, lots of ways to skin this Leopard!

ls -RS ~/coding/ | grep '\.txt' | sort -n -k5

Yeah, good catch on the \. Anyway, if I run
*ls -RS ~/coding/ | grep '\.txt' | sort -n -k5* I get a lexically sorted list of .txt's in my coding directory, no sizes next to them
*ls -RSi ~/coding/ | grep '\.txt' | sort -n -k5*
I get a list sorted by serial number (node number)
eg like this
2382637 qt.txt
2382638 ut.txt
2382639 uc.txt
2382640 ft.txt
2382641 fxt.txt
2382642 fyt.txt
2382643 fzt.txt
2442686 outputs138.80.txt
2442688 readme.txt
937046 LICENSE.txt
937221 GPL.txt
937311 LICENSE.txt
bigspring:filemerger mas
My way gives something like this

952K /Users/masonkramer/coding//latticesim/build/Debug/lmax,100,da,1.0,swaps,24003,d x,1.0,dy,1.0,dz,1.0,px,.1,py,.1,pz,.1/swaplog.txt
952K /Users/masonkramer/coding//latticesim/build/Debug/lmax,100,da,1.0,swaps,24004,d x,1.0,dy,1.0,dz,1.0,px,.1,py,.1,pz,.1/swaplog.txt
952K /Users/masonkramer/coding//latticesim/build/Debug/lmax,100,da,1.0,swaps,24005,d x,1.0,dy,1.0,dz,1.0,px,.1,py,.1,pz,.1/swaplog.txt
956K /Users/masonkramer/coding//latticesim/build/Debug/lmax,100,da,1.0,swaps,24001,d x,1.0,dy,1.0,dz,1.0,px,.1,py,.1,pz,.1/swaplog24001.txt
960K /Users/masonkramer/coding//latticesim/build/Debug/lmax,100,da,1.0,swaps,24002,d x,1.0,dy,1.0,dz,1.0,px,.1,py,.1,pz,.1/swaplog24002.txt

Works perfect for me. Here's a snapshot of the listing from my MacBook running 10.5.6 using
ls -RSl | grep '\.txt' | sort -n -k5
from the HOME folder
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 1569 30 Sep 12:11 log-bb-2008-09-26-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxerflat4 admin 1574 24 Jun 2007 layer-stamp.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 1576 22 Sep 11:22 log-bb-2008-09-17-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 1746 28 Jul 2008 log-bb-2008-07-26-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 1759 11 Sep 23:53 log-bb-2008-09-10-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 1819 16 Sep 12:16 log-bb-2008-09-15-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 1977 21 Jul 2008 log-bb-2008-07-19-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 1981 21 Jul 2008 log-bb-2008-07-20-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxerflat4 admin 2167 8 Jun 2007 readme.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 2309 1 Sep 09:20 log-bb-2008-08-29-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 2428 12 Sep 22:05 log-bb-2008-09-11-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 2443 5 Aug 2008 log-bb-2008-08-03-stats.txt.submitted
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxerflat4 admin 3280 29 Nov 13:22 AMRestoreLog.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 4082 15 Jul 2007 broadcast email list.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 boxerflat4 boxerflat4 4306 13 Dec 2007 2008MotorsportCalendar.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxerflat4 admin 7274 5 Aug 2008 MySQLReadMe.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 boxerflat4 boxerflat4 8588 18 Nov 2007 CocktailLogFile.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 boxerflat4 admin 12966 16 Dec 09:46 cookies.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxerflat4 admin 16500 7 Nov 2007 FileInfoLibPrefs.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 boxerflat4 admin 18211 4 Sep 10:55 rgb.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxerflat4 admin 19005 14 Jun 2007 VelaCrashDump.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxerflat4 admin 8973661 9 Dec 12:05 mysqlinfo.txt

Chris

Great discussion guys. I hope the Original Poster has managed to glean some valuable information from us all. I've learned something to so today is a good day despite being Friday the 13th.

Cheers
Chris

Yep, sorry about all the mis-postings yesterday (note to self, don't post at 4am...)

it would still be great to have the filepaths listed though. and maybe extract the privileges an date / time info

OK, last try then. Give this a go 😉

find -name '*.fbx' -printf "%s | %TY-%Tm-%Td %Tr | %M | %h/%f\n" | sort

The pipe's ( | ) in the printf statement are there just for display decoration.

(Disclaimer: it works on Linux! Still can't test on OS X...)