On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Jan Skowron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > coreutils program "cut" could use a "merge delimiters" option. > > Common use case: ls -l | cut ... > One needs to print 7-th column of ls -l to see all times of > modifications. But there is no constant number of delimiters between > column, eg: > drwxr-xr-x 23 user group 4096 Mar 16 2006 user > drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 19 2003 lost+found > > merge delimiters option would help a lot in such cases. Without it > users are forced to use "gawk" instead of "cut".
For this use case you should be using "stat --printf" or "find -printf". Parsing the dates produced by ls is problematic anyway: ~$ ( LC_ALL=C ls -ld ~/source/rekall ~/source/SimCity ) drwxr-xr-x 3 james users 4096 Sep 1 02:09 /home/james/source/SimCity drwxr-xr-x 24 james users 4096 Mar 22 2004 /home/james/source/rekall James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
