Question

I have a command:

ls -l | nawk -v d1=Sep -v d2=26 '{if(match($0,d1)) print $0}'
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        12 Sep 26 11:36 file1
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        14 Sep 26 11:37 file2
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:46 file3
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:44 file4
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:50 file5
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 11:00 file6
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 25 11:00 file7
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 14:22 ksh
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody       208 Sep 26 16:31 test.sh*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody        62 Sep 26 15:15 test2.sh*

But when i use the below:

ls -l | nawk -v d1=Sep -v d2=26 '{if(match($0,d1 d2)) print $0}'

Its not giving me any output!!

As you can see there is a space between Sep and 26 and i am using the same space in regex to match the string "Sep 26". could nybody pls help?

I am expecting output to be:

-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        12 Sep 26 11:36 file1
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        14 Sep 26 11:37 file2
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:46 file3
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:44 file4
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:50 file5
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 11:00 file6
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 14:22 ksh
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody       208 Sep 26 16:31 test.sh*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody        62 Sep 26 15:15 test2.sh*
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Solution

kent$  echo "-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        12 Sep 26 11:36 file1
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        14 Sep 26 11:37 file2
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:46 file3
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:44 file4
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:50 file5
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 11:00 file6
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 25 11:00 file7
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 14:22 ksh
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody       208 Sep 26 16:31 test.sh*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody        62 Sep 26 15:15 test2.sh*
"|awk -v d1=Sep -v d2=26 'BEGIN{x=d1" "d2}{ if(match($0,x))print $0;}' 

-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        12 Sep 26 11:36 file1
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody        14 Sep 26 11:37 file2
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:46 file3
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:44 file4
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 10:50 file5
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 11:00 file6
-rw-rw-r--   1 nobody   nobody         0 Sep 26 14:22 ksh
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody       208 Sep 26 16:31 test.sh*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nobody   nobody        62 Sep 26 15:15 test2.sh*

OTHER TIPS

Assuming user and group names don't contain spaces, here's the Awk way of doing this:

ls -l | nawk -v d1=Sep -v d2=26 '{if(match($6, d1) && match($7, d2)) print $0}'
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