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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com