How can I know the type of each element in the output of ls -l?












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I was checking what exactly each field is in the output of ls -l. The example in this post solves my question. But again I'm wondering what type of each field is. The strings are obvious. But how about the numbers? Like 10, 2048, are they integers or strings? Is there any way I can check the type of each field?









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  • ls -l produces a string. If you feed the output of ls -l to bash or awk or another program, how that program interprets the strings is up to it.

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I was checking what exactly each field is in the output of ls -l. The example in this post solves my question. But again I'm wondering what type of each field is. The strings are obvious. But how about the numbers? Like 10, 2048, are they integers or strings? Is there any way I can check the type of each field?









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I was checking what exactly each field is in the output of ls -l. The example in this post solves my question. But again I'm wondering what type of each field is. The strings are obvious. But how about the numbers? Like 10, 2048, are they integers or strings? Is there any way I can check the type of each field?









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  • ls -l produces a string. If you feed the output of ls -l to bash or awk or another program, how that program interprets the strings is up to it.

    – John1024
    45 secs ago



















  • ls -l produces a string. If you feed the output of ls -l to bash or awk or another program, how that program interprets the strings is up to it.

    – John1024
    45 secs ago

















ls -l produces a string. If you feed the output of ls -l to bash or awk or another program, how that program interprets the strings is up to it.

– John1024
45 secs ago





ls -l produces a string. If you feed the output of ls -l to bash or awk or another program, how that program interprets the strings is up to it.

– John1024
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