samba - Dec 2001 - File mode badly shown in smbclient (want DAHR,---R,---- etc)

Hi

We are using smbclient to automatically (& remotely) monitor the sizes and
ages of files. The file names contain spaces of course. Some files have
attributes set. Now how do I separate between file attributes and the file
name in the following directory listing?

EXAMPLE:

  smb: ?> dir *file*
    second file is called AR                    0  Fri Sep 15 12:37:54 2000
    file name with spaces             AR        0  Fri Sep 15 12:37:54 2000

QUESTION:
	does the AR belong to the filename of "second file is called AR"
	or does it say that the attributes of "second file is called" are
"AR"?

	For me it's obvious, but for my scripts it isn't.


FIX:	Smbclient should use this notation: DAHR or -A-R for attributes.
	Could somebody please include this in a future version of Smbclient.


==========================Ralf Strandell
UNIX System Administrator
Silja Line, Finland
===========================

Ralf.Strandell@silja.com wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> We are using smbclient to automatically (& remotely) monitor the sizes
and
> ages of files. The file names contain spaces of course. Some files have
> attributes set. Now how do I separate between file attributes and the file
> name in the following directory listing?
> 
> EXAMPLE:
> 
>   smb: ?> dir *file*
>     second file is called AR                    0  Fri Sep 15 12:37:54 2000
>     file name with spaces             AR        0  Fri Sep 15 12:37:54 2000
	This is easy:
cut -c 1-33 $$ >$$.name
cut -c 34-37 $$ >$$.attr
cut -c 38-46 $$ >$$.size
cut -c 47- $$ >$$.date
paste -d: $$.name $$.attr $$.size $$.date
rm $$

	On the other hand, an option to ls to
	make it use a unix-like notation might
	make good sense. -l, perhaps (:-))

--dave
-- 
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SunPS Integration Services.    |                      -- Mark Twain
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I am NOT a C programmer but:
This is an easy thing to modify in the source code.
There is a line in client.c (line 330 in 2.2.1a) like so:
 DEBUG(0,("  %-30s%7.7s %8.0f  %s",  
Change it to read:
DEBUG(0,("  <%-30s>%7.7s %8.0f  %s",  
            ^     ^
Recompile (I just have to run make, takes about 5 seconds)
and then you get output like this:
 <initrd                        >      D        0  Sat Jul  8 17:12:46
2000
The new version will be in source/bin. Don't run make install unless you
want this to be the new, system wide version of smbclient.
I was not able to use control characters in the DEBUG string, but, this sort
of output should be easy enough to parse. It might be possible to embed
special characters which wouldn't even be in a windows file name, but I just
don't know how to do that.
I am sure it would be possible to have confusing file names with < > in
them, but, it should be possible to script around them. Or, make the
separator as bizarre as you can eg. %^&$* or some silly thing.
You could compile this special version of smblcient and use it only for your
scripts, so regular users or other programs wouldn't be confused by it.
If you want help devising a script to parse this, I am sure the sedophiliacs
at:
 sed-users@yahoogroups.com      
would be glad to help.
Joel


On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 01:12:07PM +0200, Ralf.Strandell@silja.com
wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We are using smbclient to automatically (& remotely) monitor the sizes
and
> ages of files. The file names contain spaces of course. Some files have
> attributes set. Now how do I separate between file attributes and the file
> name in the following directory listing?
> 
> EXAMPLE:
> 
>   smb: ?> dir *file*
>     second file is called AR                    0  Fri Sep 15 12:37:54 2000
>     file name with spaces             AR        0  Fri Sep 15 12:37:54 2000
> 
> QUESTION:
> 	does the AR belong to the filename of "second file is called AR"
> 	or does it say that the attributes of "second file is called"
are
> "AR"?
> 
> 	For me it's obvious, but for my scripts it isn't.
> 
> 
> FIX:	Smbclient should use this notation: DAHR or -A-R for attributes.
> 	Could somebody please include this in a future version of Smbclient.
> 
> 
> ==========================> Ralf Strandell
> UNIX System Administrator
> Silja Line, Finland
> ==========================> 
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I think you could just ship the smbclient program. Samba and smbclient are
two distinct animals. Or, if you are more ambitious, and know more than me,
you could ship a doctored version of smblient which would take an additional
command line option that would use the different output string. If I have
the time, likely I won't, I'll play with it. 
Joel
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:40:47AM +0200, Ralf.Strandell@silja.com
wrote:
> Thanks.
> 
> However...
> Unfortunately I cannot rely on non-standard versions of software.
> My script will be distributed to a number of people with different versions
> of Samba.
> I could list the latest version of Samba in the requirements, but certainly
> nothing like "recompile required". Thus the problem remains.
> 
> ______________________________
> Ralf Strandell
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> Silja Line, Finland
> ______________________________
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:jhammer2@home.com]
> > Sent: 20. joulukuuta 2001 16:51
> > To: samba@lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: File mode badly shown in smbclient (want DAHR,---R,----
> > etc)
> > 
> > 
> > This is a new and improved version of that statement.
> > This should be easy to parse, no matter what awful file name you have.
> >  DEBUG(0,("  <%s>(%s)|%.0f|%s",   
> > Gives this output:
> > <junkbig.ps>()|31344767|Sat Dec  8 13:00:42 2001
> > <junkbig>()|31344767|Sat Dec  8 13:01:36 2001
> > <opera-6.0-20011129.1-static_qt.i386.tar.gz>()|4081948|Sun 
> > Dec  9 21:29:54 2001
> > <opera-6.0-20011129.1-static_qt.i386>(D)|0|Sun Dec  9 21:33:14
2001
> > <lib>(D)|0|Sun Dec  9 21:34:23 2001            
> > 
> > This is the sed command (very messy) which parses this for you:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > sed "{
> > s/\( 
> >
*<\)\(.*\)\(>\)\((\)\(.*\)\()\)\(|\)\(.*\)\(|\)\(.*\)$/\"\2\"
> > \"\5\" \"\8\"/
> > }"
> > It doesn't matter if there are embedded < or > in the file 
> > name. Sed goes
> > to the last character it can fit into the seach string.
> > 
> > This is the output:
> > "junkbig.ps" "" "31344767"
> > "junkbig" "" "31344767"
> > "opera-6.0-20011129.1-static_qt.i386.tar.gz" ""
"4081948"
> > "opera-6.0-20011129.1-static_qt.i386" "D"
"0"
> > "lib" "D" "0"
> > 
> > Ain't open source grand?
> > Joel
> > 
> > 
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