More fun with awk

Shell Programming and Scripting
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#!/usr/bin/ksh
ls -l $@ | awk '
/^-/ {
l = 5*log($5)
h = sprintf("%7d %-72s",$5,$8)
print "\x1B[7m" substr(h,1,l) "\x1B[27m" substr(h,l+1)
}
'

ls command with histogram of file sizes.
The histogram scale is logaritmic, to avoid very short bars for smaller files or very long bars for bigger files.

Screenshot:

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Good one, am just adding few changes

ls -l $@ to ls -l

adding filename to the historgram, adding more meaning

ls -l | awk '
/^-/ {
l = 5*log($5)
h = sprintf("%7d %-72s", $5, $8)
print "\x1B[7m" substr(h,1,l) "\x1B[27m" substr(h,l+1), $9
}
'
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Why?
$@ was there to replicate for ls the arguments given to the command hls, so that you can say for example:
hls -rS /bin/*

I was using ls from Debian Linux, $5 was the size and $8 was the filename.
Now I am on Solaris (different output)... can't see any $9 in the output of ls -l.
What field is $9?

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$9 is the file name.

Good work colemar.

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this is what am saying is not needed at all, when the command is piped through the output of the command will be automatically piped through