[PLUG] cut delimiter question

[Chris Berry]

The problem with cut is that it's really picky.  You could get close with: 

ls -alh | cut -f11 -d'  ' 

but due to various file sizes sometimes you'll get the wrong field due to extra spaces.  So you'd end up running something else to delete the extra spaces first.  For your specific problem you could do this: 

ls -alh | tr -s ' ' | cut -f9 -d' ' 

Oh by the way, is etiquette here to reply all or reply list?


Chris Berry
Linux Systems Administrator
Davis Tool
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>>> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> 6/11/2012 8:23 AM >>>
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

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