Hi Lisi, On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:18:39PM +0000, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:35:56 Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:16 +0000, Lisi wrote: > > > In teh following: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi 19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt > > > > > > I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or file > > > (information that is also at the beginning of the permissions), owner, > > > group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or directory. > > > > > > What are these called? I have always called them fields, but it would > > > appear that I am wrong to do so. > > > > directory/file > > user perms-group perms-others perms > > user-group > > size > > last modified timestamp > > file name > > > > I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical name > > though :-) > > Thanks, Camaleón! Yes ,that it what they are in this context. But in more > general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the names of > that particular page etc. - what are they called? I want to use it with cut > if possible, but can't even find if there is a suitable option when I don't > know what they are called. Column is too narrow (in the physical sense) a > definition. There are 21 of what cut calls columns in the name of the file > alone in this sample!
Is that what you want to achieve? ls -l | sed -e 's/ */ /g' | cut -f 8 -d " " This gives the 8's element in the line, that is the filename. I used "sed" to replace multiple spaces by a single one, and then "cut" to select an appropriate element Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110130124532.GJ22032@axel
