I want to be able to list files showing the number of lines the each file has and the date. I can happily get the line count using wc -l *. Not a problem. I can get the date using ls -l.Is there a way to combine the two commands to give me a single output in columns?
List files with line count and date
bash;shell;text processing;ls;wc
Here is something with find + wc + date.find . -maxdepth 1 -exec sh -c '[ -f $0 ] && \  printf %6s\t\t%s\t%s\n $(wc -l<$0) $(date -r $0) $0' {} \;Instead of date -r one can also use for example stat -c%y.The output looks like this:   394      Thu Oct 16 22:38:14 UTC 2014    ./.zshrc     7      Thu Oct 30 11:19:01 UTC 2014    ./tmp.txt     2      Thu Oct 30 06:02:00 UTC 2014    ./tmp2.txt    40      Thu Oct 30 04:16:30 UTC 2014    ./pp.txtUsing this as starting point one can create a function which accepts directory and pattern as parameters:myls () { find $1 -maxdepth 1 -name $2 -exec sh -c '[ -f $0 ] && \  printf %6s \t\t%s\t%s\n $(wc -l<$0) $(date -r $0) $0' {} \;; }After that myls /tmp '*.png' will list only images from /tmp (notice single quotes around pattern to prevent shell from expanding a glob operator *).