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ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5

• foobarian 5y ago
  Exactly! Exactly! And now fix it to work with tabs :-)
  • tyingq 5y ago
    And leading whitespace. Compare: $ printf " one two three" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 $ printf " one two three" | awk '{print $1}' one
    • goohle 5y ago
      ps ax | sed 's/^\s\+//; s/\s\+/ /g;' | cut -d ' ' -f 4
  • goohle 5y ago
    echo -e '1\t2\t3\t4\t5' | expand -t 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3