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Old 08-28-2009
delete beginning field.
I want to script out deleting the first field of a file when it is created. I'm looking to store the output of an ls -l commad to a file but leaving off the permissions so when the file is opened I see something like;

2 bin bin 256 Feb 6 2005 mnt
5 root system 256 Feb 5 2005 home
9 root system 256 Feb 5 2005 someflie

so the display of -rwxrwxrwx is removed.

Thnak you
# 2  
Old 08-28-2009
Code:
ls -l | sed 's#^[^ ][^ ]* *\(.*\)#\1#'

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Old 08-28-2009
ls -l | awk '{ print $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9 }'
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