Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > My main concern here is that there is no way for someone to use > stat -c "%whatever" file1 file2 > and expect it to work for both syntaxes without reverting to some truely > hideous sed games or somesuch.
But there *is* a way. It's just that the portable solution doesn't fit on one line: $ stat -c '%G > ' / / root root You can also do something like this: #!/bin/sh nl=' ' stat -c "%G$nl" / / If you don't mind relying on a feature that works in both bash and zsh, there's yet another way: $ stat -c $'%G\n' / / root root _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
