From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6aa931133474a170f86e9a21a83d36d2@coraid.com> From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:30:46 -0500 To: steve@quintile.net, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] silly rc quoting question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5cd292a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Well, Don't Do That, Then. =E2=98=BA this awk script will do what you want ls -l|awk '{print substr($0, 38+length($4)+length($5));}' it's slightly annoying, but unavoidable that ls -l's user and group fields are dynamicly sized. - erik