Iterating over each line of ls -l output

Question

I want to iterate over each line in the output of: ls -l /some/dir/*

Right now I\'m trying: for x in $(ls -l $1); do echo $x; done

Answer 1

It depends what you want to do with each line. awk is a useful utility for this type of processing. Example:

 ls -l | awk '{print $9, $5}'

.. on my system prints the name and size of each item in the directory.