this ls -l | egrep '^-' | awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$9))}'
produces this in debian/ubuntu: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1525 2006-09-19 20:38 zforce -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3561 2006-09-19 20:38 zgrep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 103 2006-09-19 20:38 zless -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1886 2006-09-19 20:38 zmore -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3518 2006-09-19 20:38 znew it needs to be adjusted to: ls -l | egrep '^-' | awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$8))}' to produce the correct result. this was the reason i initially thought that it was wrong, you were running it in redhat and those same commands were not producing the expected results in debian.
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