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Can these flags be used to extract the N-th column (say, the size) of every line from ls -l output?
by sudahtigabulan 11mo ago
Can these flags be used to extract the N-th column (say, the size) of every line from ls -l output?
- lelanthran 11mo agoYes. $ ls -l | cut -c 35-41 22 4096 4096 4096 4096 4096 4096 68 456 690 7926 8503 19914
- sudahtigabulan 11mo agoThis is what I get: ls -l | cut -c 35-41 6 Nov 1 6 Nov 6 Nov 1 6 Nov 1
- lelanthran 11mo agoWell, sure. I said it did character ranges so you don't have to use fields. What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine?
- sudahtigabulan 11mo ago> What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine? I would expect the command to work in any directory. Try a few different directories on your computer and you'll see that it won't work in some of them.
- lelanthran 11mo ago> I would expect the command to work in any directory. But ... why expect that? That's not what "character ranges" mean. I mean, I was only trying to clarify that `cut` is not limited to fields only.