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Old 09-17-2007
Nidhi2177 Nidhi2177 is offline
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Thanks All,

I have got the solution..


lines=`ls -l | tr -s [:space:] | cut -d ' ' -f 5 | wc -l`
lines=`expr $lines - 1`

echo "Fifth column of 'ls -l' command:::"
ls -l | tr -s [:space:] |cut -d ' ' -f 5 | tail -n $lines
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