Changing the behaviour of ls, possibly via a script

[Jude DaShiell]

You could do it with awk.  You'd need to write a small script and the 
script could run ls for you and rearrange the fields the way you need 
them.  From what you write, you'd put a line to rearrange the fields in 
your awk script like printf("$4 $1 $2 $3");  awkuses the $ notation 
followed by numbers to specify fields.  I did a little bit with awk many 
moons ago.  Fortunately an internet book exists that can show you lots of 
stuff.  If you don't get a satisfactory and functional answer here, you 
might consider sed-users-subscribe at yahoogroups.com.  That list handles 
both sed and awk questions extensively.



On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Lorenzo Prince wrote:

> I need to possibly make a script or in some other way change the behaviour of ls
> so that something like
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 lorenzo lorenzo     16106 Dec 21  1997 pongmey.tet
>
> looks more like
>
> pongmey.tet		-rw-r--r--   lorenzo lorenzo
>
> Is there an easy way to do this or would I have to use something like awk or sed,
> which I know little or nothing about?  Would I need to completely write a program
> from scratch to do this, or does one already exist, or could this possibly be
> done through a relatively simple script?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> PRINCE
>
>
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