[PLUG] cut delimiter question

[Ken Stephens]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Chris Berry wrote:
>
>> I would generally use awk to do that, something like this:
>> ls -alh | awk '{print $9 }'
> Chris,
>
>     I thought of that but figured cut would be the better way. Apparenly not.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
Rich,

Since long listing is formatted in columns, why not use byte-list option 
'-b'?

 >cut -b 44-132  file

Or some other large number for the final range.

Ken