List attributes from Terminal

Forum thread started by un_spacyar on Wed, 2015-03-11 02:37

Hi. Is any way to see, from Terminal, more of one attribute from several files at once?

For example, if I have 3 people files, from Tracker I can see:

Name | Phone | EMail | Company
-----------------------------------------------------
John 555-222 test@... MyCompany
Mery 555-111 mery@... Mery-Company
Carl 555-000 carl@... Carl-Company

Is any way to show the same information, from Terminal?

I know about catattr command, but I can list the value of only one attribute at the same time.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

Re: List attributes from Terminal

by donn - 2015-03-13 03:13

I think you're not the only one who doesn't know about the "-l" flag to listattr.

The result is of course not going to look anything like your picture, but you could fix that up with an awk script or something. Like ...

function printline () {
  if (rp["name"])
    print rp["name"], rp["wphone"], rp["email"], rp["company"]
  split("", rp)
}
/^File:/ {
  printline()
}
$3 ~ /META:/ {  # "META:wphone" -- in quotes, which is some extra trouble
  k = substr($3, 7, length($3) - 7)
  v = $4
  for (i = 5, $i, ++i) {
    v = v " " $i
  rp[k] = v
}
END {
  printline()
}

listattr -l * | awk -f awkfilename

That's somewhat rudimentary and not 100% reliable, but you probably have a more specific idea in mind anyway.

[edited for typos]

Re: List attributes from Terminal

by un_spacyar - 2015-03-15 22:29

Thank you very much!!! I didn't know about the " -l " flag. With this and combined with grep is very close to what I need.

Also, thank you for the script example :-)

Regards!