[ILUG] unic cut question

[kevin lyda]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:49:54AM +0100, hrishy wrote:
> -rw-rw----   1 bsp      bsp        12086 Jul 03 05:37
> build-dd
> 
> but i wnat to the output to conatin a particular
> column only say forx 3rd column.how di i do this??

i wouldn't use cut.  i'd use awk.  like so:

    ls -l|awk '{print $3}'

kevin

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