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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Retaining default OFS Post 302277046 by amicon007 on Thursday 15th of January 2009 09:12:44 AM
Old 01-15-2009
Retaining default OFS
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
 

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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
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     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-
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ENVIRONMENT

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EXIT STATUS

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

SEE ALSO

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HISTORY

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