On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 02:24:09PM -0800, Webb Sprague wrote:
Webb> Hi folks. 2 quick questions:
Webb>
Webb> 1. What do the magic numbers mean when you do "ls -l"?
Which "magic" numbers are you referring to, Webb?
If anyone knows what the "1" in the "ls -l" means, I would
be curious to know.
$ ls -l ~/tmp
total 1
-rw------- 1 brian brian 360 Dec 17 19:55 dead.letter
^ ^ ^
| | +- File size
| + I am not sure what this means
|
+- User Read/Write, Next is group, then world
Webb> 2. How do you tell awk to match an empty field? "$1
Webb> ~ //" matches on every record in my thing, whether $1
Webb> has anything in it or not.
Hmm,
I am just speaking from PERL experience, but you could try
~\ //
or
~\s//
or
~\S//
HTH
brian
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