[ILUG] pdf document info, ls date format and awk commands

[Padraig Brady]

Declan Grady wrote:

> I have a list of folder full of pdf files, of which I regularly create a
> html list of name, date and size. - after a bit of fiddling, this awk
> command seems to work
> 
> ls -l | awk '{print "<a
> href=\"http://www.nuvotem.com/en/products/pdf/"$9"\">"$9"</a>","<br>Date:
> "$7"-"$6"-"$8,"<br>Size: "$5" bytes \n\n\n<br><br>"}'
> 
>>>/home/declan/pdflist.html
>>>
> 
> This gives me an output like so : (full list at
> http://www.nuvotem.com/pdflist.html )
> 
> <a href="http://www.nuvotem.com/en/products/pdf/AC1005.pdf">AC1005.pdf</a>
> <br>Date: 11-Jan-14:10 <br>Size: 55595 bytes <br><br>
> <a href="http://www.nuvotem.com/en/products/pdf/AC1010.pdf">AC1010.pdf</a>
> <br>Date: 11-Jan-14:10 <br>Size: 52907 bytes <br><br>
> .... etc etc
> 
> 3 questions:
> 1. How can I get the date format to show 11-Jan-2002 instead of 11-Jan-14:10
> ?
> 2. How can I *easily* get the "description" from the pdf "document info"
> from each pdf file ?
> 3. How *should* I have gone about achieving this, considering I'm no
> programmer ?

My daily find command. In general if you need inode info, use find, not
ls (whose output is really only for parsing by humans)

find -type f -maxdepth 1 -printf "<a href=\"http://www.nuvotem.com/en/products/pdf/%P\">%P</a><br>Date: %Td-%Tb-%Ty<br>Size: %s bytes\n"
> Thanks,
> Declan
> [NODIS]


Padraig.