From: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html
try the "cut" command. Sounds like it does just what you want. -J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 10 March, 2004 5:06 PM Subject: Re: backup script > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:29, Craig Schneider wrote: > <snip> > > Just battling to use awk to extract the last for collumns. > > > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root [ 234 Mar 10 06:38 backup ] > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Shell scripting is definitely > > not one of my strong points. > > http://tldp.org/guides.html > > Look for "Advanced Bash Shell Scripting guide" - it'll cover all you > need. > > Especially for awk, http://sparky.rice.edu/~hartigan/awk.html is also > interesting. > > -A > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]