Bourne .sh ?

[Chip Camden]

On Jul 02 11:39, Aiza wrote:
> Chip Camden wrote:
> >On Jul 02 07:43, Aiza wrote:
> >>I have a file containing this
> >>
> >>drwxrwxr-x  14 89987  546  512 Jun  6  2009 7.2-RELEASE
> >>drwxrwxr-x  14 89987  546  512 Mar 23 04:59 7.3-RELEASE
> >>drwxrwxr-x  13 89987  546  512 Nov 23  2009 8.0-RELEASE
> >>drwxrwxr-x  13 89987  546  512 Jul  1 04:56 8.1-RC2
> >>
> >>I want to strip off everything to the left of the release
> >>version so I end up with this.
> >>
> >>7.2-RELEASE
> >>7.3-RELEASE
> >>8.0-RELEASE
> >>8.1-RC2
> >>
> >>How would I code to do this?
> >
> >sed -e 's/.* //' < file
> >
> >assuming there are no trailing spaces on each line.
> >
> >Another alternative would be to create the list without all that detail:
> >
> >ls -1
> >
> 
> Wow do I feel stupid. You saw through my question to the underlying 
> problem causing the need to strip off that stuff. I just changed the 
> command from ls -l to ls -1 and got what I wanted in the first place.
> 
> Thanks

You're welcome.  We're all learners here, but the man pages are an
excellent resource.

-- 
Sterling (Chip) Camden
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