[CentOS] awk help

[Les Mikesell]

On 12/1/2010 5:44 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Christopher Chan<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, December 02, 2010 05:09 AM, ann kok wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Anyone can help to let me know how to
>>>
>>> ls -1 | lsattr
>>
>> lsattr `ls -1`
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ls -al /folder | awk '{ print $2}' | lsattr
>>>
>>
>>
>> for i in `ls -al /folder | awk '{ print $8}'`; do lsattr /folder/$i; done
>
> You can probably do that last one as a pipe to xargs instead of a shell loop.

I'm missing something here.  Why does lsattr need help from ls?

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