I tried using cut to list permissions and filenames from a directory listing, example:
ls -l | cut -d"\b" -f 1,9 > temp.txt but the delimiter is more than a single character. Using -d " " for the delimiter does not work as there are more than a single space separating fields, and the white space is not uniformly a tab. The man page and results from my web searches haven't shown me how to correctly specify the delimiter. Here's an example listing from ~/; $ ls -l | head -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users 14 Nov 5 08:30 CURRENTIP drwxrwxr-x 2 rshepard users 4096 Nov 8 2010 Desktop/ drwx------ 2 rshepard users 4096 Oct 18 2014 Downloads/ drwx------ 8 rshepard users 4096 Nov 7 05:39 Dropbox/ drwxr-xr-x 2 rshepard users 4096 Jul 6 08:31 News/ drwxrwxr-x 44 rshepard users 4096 Nov 4 10:47 R/ -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users 2569555 Oct 31 16:29 rue2009.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users 14052 Dec 4 2015 UTF-8-demo.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users 1318075 Oct 25 10:16 al-rawas2011.pdf and I want to extract fields 1 and 9. TIA, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug