Looking at the info on cut, you cannot do it in a single command. You would need to use sed. or tr with a pipe
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Larry Brigman <larry.brig...@gmail.com> wrote: > Woops extra $ in the script. > ls -l | awk '{print $1 $NF;}' > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Larry Brigman <larry.brig...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Try using awk >> ls -l | awk '{print $1 $$NF;}' >> >> Note if the file timestamp (creation or modification) is over a year old >> it changes and the output may not have 9 columns then. >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug