Grepping

[Muzzafarath]

How would I go about passing all of the files that have been chmodded to -rw-r--r-- as arguments to a program (ee in this example)? I can grep the files like so (but this includes a lot of other info too):

ls -l --color | grep rw-r--r--

But ee complains if I do this (for obvious reasons http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif):

ee `ls -l | grep rw-r--r--`

Any ideas?

[This message has been edited by Muzzafarath (edited 03 December 2000).]

[Pierre Lambion]

Not sure, but shouldn't you do ls -l | grep bla bla | ee ?

[YaRness]

you could pipe that "ls...." line into awk.. i don't have my linux box booted up, but... say after that ls line the 4th field returned is the file name, then you could do

ls -l --color | grep rw-r--r-- | awk {print $4} | ee

that would send the list of filenames to ee.

you could shorten that command as well if i remember correctly:

ls -l --color | awk /rw-r--r--/ {print $4} | ee

though i think i have the syntax for awk a bit wrong. anyway, try playing with it.

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