$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E ' chomp(my @lsl = qx{ls -l | tail -3}); chomp(my @lsi = qx{ls -i | tail -3}); splice @lsi, 1, 1; my $lsi_index = 0; for (@lsl) { my $file = (split / /)[-1]; my $pos = index $lsi[$lsi_index], $file; if ($pos == -1) { say " N/A ", $_; } else { say substr($lsi[$lsi_index++], 0, $pos), $_; } } ' 44060626 -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 10 Sep 15:02 zz1 N/A -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 10 Sep 15:02 zz2 44060628 -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 10 Sep 15:03 zz3 #### $ ls -l | tail -3; ls -i | tail -3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 10 Sep 15:02 zz1 -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 10 Sep 15:02 zz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 10 Sep 15:03 zz3 44060626 zz1 44060627 zz2 44060628 zz3