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Old 04-26-2010
How to print the last column of the list contain filenames with spaces.
Hi experts,

I have the following data: I want the last filed in the output.

How to print the last field , It contains the file names and few filenames with white spaces .



Code:
 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-04-26 16:57 file1  2space_File.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-04-26 15:56 a b c  d__File
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31610 2010-03-18 11:23 allpkgs.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-06 07:42 banner1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-06 04:53 doc1   _file1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-18 10:39 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-18 10:36 Documents


Thanks in adv,..
# 2  
Old 04-26-2010
Code:
$ cut -d' '  -f8- data
file1  2space_File.txt
a b c  d__File
allpkgs.txt
banner1
doc1   _file1
Desktop
Documents

# 3  
Old 04-26-2010
great it works.
Thanks.
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