topic Re: using cut command in Operating System - Linux

using cut command

Avery_1 — Sat, 10 May 2003 07:58:03 GMT

how to use cut command to display the dates on which the files in the current directory were last modified?

Re: using cut command

Jerome Henry — Sat, 10 May 2003 14:15:31 GMT

I suppose you are using ls -l to list them. The command then would be :
ls -l | cut -f7,8
Cut is used to show only requested fields, then we use -f option along with fields separator (if none, like here, then separator must be tab).ON ls, you get 8 fields, type(1), rights(2), links(3), prop(4), group(5), size(6), last modif(7) and name(8).
You can also use cut specifying columns, with -c, which is less clever here, but would work too with
ls-l | cut -c38- (from clumn 38 to last).
RGDS
J

Re: using cut command

Balaji N — Mon, 12 May 2003 03:18:23 GMT

man cut.
info cut.

-balaji

Re: using cut command

John Meissner — Mon, 12 May 2003 12:17:08 GMT

instead of "cut" i'd recommed "awk" you can get an entire field much more easily that with cut

ll | awk '{print $6,$7,$9}'

this will show the month, day, and filename of a file

Re: using cut command

Sachin Patel — Mon, 12 May 2003 14:34:33 GMT

use awk

ls -laut | awk '{print $6 $7 $8}'

Sachin