Streamlining this awk construct

uncle-c · 10-31-2007, 07:38 AM

I'm trying to capture the 9th field of all but the first 2 lines of the ls command :

Code:

ls | awk ' NR > 2' | awk ' {print $9}'

Is there a way of streamlining this code so I only use one awk command as opposed to two. I've tried to use the for control statement but have failed !

Cheers,
Uncle

ghostdog74 · 10-31-2007, 08:20 AM

with ls only , you won't be able to get field 9. use ls -l

Code:

ls -l | awk 'NR>2{print $9}'

uncle-c · 10-31-2007, 08:39 AM

Thanks a lot gd ! I've set an alias for ls to equal ls -al.

Cheers,
Uncle