[PLUG] cut delimiter question

[Chris Berry]

I would generally use awk to do that, something like this: 

ls -alh | awk '{print $9 }'


Chris Berry
Linux Systems Administrator
Davis Tool
x521

>>> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> 6/11/2012 7:42 AM >>>
   On a long directory listing there are 8 fields: permissions, number of
links, owner/group, size, month, day, time, filename. If I want a list of
only filenames from cut I can specify the delimiter, but the listing is
delimited by one or more spaces. Trying -d" " seems to work for a single
space, and the man page (and my Google searches) haven't shown me how to
specify multiple spaces. Is there a generic 'white space' specification?

Rich


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