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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Modified dates to a file without the cut command Post 11415 by TioTony on Wednesday 5th of December 2001 12:39:31 AM
Old 12-05-2001
Hi Cypher,
You can use this:

ls -sl | awk '{print $9,$10} > file.out

to accomplish what you want. You may have to adjust $9 and $10 depending on your system output. I ran this on Solaris 8. IF you have never used awk, the above statment will essentially copy columns 9 and 10 of the ls -sl output info the log file and nothing else. In my case, column 9 is the time and 10 is the filename. If you don't want the filename, simply remove the ",$10" from above. Also, you could change the ls command from ls -sl to ls -c if you wanted to learn when the file permissions, ownership, etc were last changed. You may have to change 9 and 10 again to compensate for your system output.
 

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colrm

COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME

     colrm -- remove columns from a file

SYNOPSIS

     colrm [start [stop]]

DESCRIPTION

     The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file.  A column is defined as a single character in a line.  Input is read
     from the standard input.  Output is written to the standard output.

     If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written.  If both start and stop columns are spec-
     ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written.  Column numbering starts with one, not
     zero.

     Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight.  Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.

ENVIRONMENT

     The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)

HISTORY

     The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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