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/ 3 Years ago, sat, may 8, 2021, 2:05:04
My goal is deceptively simple (at least to me). I wish to take the output of ls -l
or ls -lh
and select just one field.
I am looking for this to be as bulletproof as possible, by which I mean, assume that filenames can have a variable number of spaces, not everything in the field has the same length, etc.
Bonus points for having a script that will take the name of the the field (or even just a field number), and then return the contents of the field.
I want to turn
into:
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