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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How do I use the cut command to only print the directories? Post 302983112 by steezuschrist96 on Thursday 6th of October 2016 12:03:51 PM
Old 10-06-2016
Trying to learn about the cut command and use it to cut a specific column from the
Code:
ls -l

command, just wondering what I would have do to cut specific parts from text output, in this case the directories at the end of the output.

For example:

This output:

Code:
drwx------   3 user1  user  4096 19 Jan  2016 Applications
drwx------   2 user1  user  4096 22 Mar  2016 Desktop
drwx------   5 user1  user  4096  6 Oct 09:45 Documents
drwx------   3 user1  user  4096  6 Oct 09:10 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x@ 31 user1  user  4096  6 Oct 08:55 Library
drwx------   2 user1  user  4096 12 Jan  2016 Movies
drwx------   2 user1  user  4096 12 Jan  2016 Music
drwx------   2 user1  user  4096 12 Jan  2016 Pictures

Then by using the cut command should look like

Code:
Applications
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Library
Movies
Music
Pictures

Thanks.
 

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