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/ 2 Years ago, tue, june 28, 2022, 1:24:36
How can the output of ls -l
be modified to separate fields using tabs instead of spaces? I want to paste the output into a spreadsheet; the padding with a variable number of spaces makes it difficult to do so. To illustrate:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 26 11:43 wpa_supplicant
-rw-r----- 1 root dialout 66 Sep 26 11:43 wvdial.conf
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Oct 8 08:21 X11
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Feb 18 23:31 xdg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 31 06:11 xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 22 07:26 xul-ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 349 Jan 13 2012 zsh_command_not_found
In the excerpt from ls -l /etc
shown above, rows 1, 2 and 3 have a single digit in column 2 whereas row 4 has two. That means the alignment is achieved by using two spaces for separating columns 1 and 2 in rows 1-3, but just one space in row 4.
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