Changing the Column separator for ls command in Suse11.0

grahamtysall · 05-06-2009, 04:11 AM

Stupid question but, how can I change the column separator for the Suse 11.0 ls command for space(s) to tab?

This driving me mad and up to now I am stumped!

bhaslinux · 05-06-2009, 04:37 AM

something like this ?
ls -l | tr -s ' ' '\t'
but not possible directly from ls
may be you can write an alias to ls as this ?

grahamtysall · 05-08-2009, 06:53 AM

Hi all,
I managed to produce a solution using sed that solved my problem:

ls -l $* | sed 's/ +/\t/g'