using cut command

[Avery_1]

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

[Jerome Henry]

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

[Balaji N]

man cut.
info cut.

-balaji

[John Meissner]

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

[Sachin Patel]

use awk

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

Sachin