Retaining default OFS

amicon007 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-15-2009

Hi,

I wat to remove the first two columns of the ls -l command:

$ ls -l | awk '{ $1="";$2="";print;}'

The only problem is now the columns of the output is space separated instead of the separators the ls -l originally throws. Can someone tell how to preserve the default OFS of an ls -l command?
Thanks

angheloko · #2 (**permalink**) 01-15-2009

Hi amicon007,

I don't think the OFS changed. Can you post a sample output.

SFNYC · #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2009

Try this:

Code:

ls -l|cut -d' ' -f4-

methyl · #4 (**permalink**) 01-15-2009

Code:

Adjust "16" for your ls -la output.

ls -l | cut -c16-

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