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eternalban on Nov 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

Wouldn't 'find .. -exec ' and friends get you this?

    find . -type f -depth 1 -exec ls -la {} + | awk {'print "file="$9 " user=" $3 " group=" $4 " size=" $5'}

kazinator on Nov 1, 2022 [–]

Your awk has to put out file="..." notation, and if double quotes occur, they have to be escaped. So you're looking at substantially longer command.

  | awk 'function esc(str) {
         ...
         }
         { print "file=\"" esc($9) " user=\"" ... }'

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