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October 29th, 2003, 03:45 PM

ffresh1212

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Script help

I need to make a unix script that takes a directory as a arguement, and then print out all of the files in that directory in 2 columns. -Thanks

October 30th, 2003, 02:59 PM

druuna

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Although this looks a bit like homework to me, I'll be nice for once

Code:

#!/bin/bash
INPUT="$1"
ls -x ${INPUT}

December 7th, 2003, 12:01 AM

jayakhanna

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I think the question was to print file names in 2 not (to :-))
columns. This script will do th printing in 2 columns

#!/bin/sh
j=0;

for i in `ls -1 $1`
do
echo "$i \c"
j=`expr $j + 1`
k=`expr $j % 2`
if [ $k -eq 0 ]
then
echo ""
fi
done

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