Jim Cheetham wrote:
ls -lh --time-style + $candidate | cut -d' ' -f9
Cut seems to be vulnerable to the number of spaces:
$ echo "One two three
One two three"
One two three
One two three <--- There's an extra space in here
$ echo "One two three
One two three" | cut -d' ' -f3
three
two
$ ls -lh | cut -d' ' -f8
<--- This was the "total 1.5M" line
2008-04-02
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But you can achieve the desired result with the "byte" option:
$ ls -lh | cut -b50-
Documents -> /mnt/ntfs/Documents and Settings/roydsd/My
Documents/Douglas/
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Was there meant to be something after the "+"?
Douglas.
PS: I resisted the urge to name the script "which, really?"
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