Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

When I do the ls-ld command for example like this:

# ls -ld /Applications

I get an output like this:

drwxrwxr-x+ 114 root admin 3876 18 Aug 14:04 /Applications

I need to somehow use sed to put the ownership into a format like this:

root:admin

So basically remove everything in the string except for "root admin" and then replace the 2 spaces (I think? It might be one, not sure) between root and admin with a colon. And this needs to work for users other than root/admin, for stuff like this too:

drwx------+ 18 pcwiz staff 612 19 Aug 16:26 /Users/pcwiz/Desktop

Thanks

I would use awk...

Code:

# ls -ld /Applications | awk '{ print $3 }'

Or even

Code:

ls -ld /Applications | awk 'BEGIN { OFS=":"}  { print $3,$4 }'