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Comment by lelanthran | Hacker News Reader

Yes.

    $ ls -l | cut -c 35-41

        22 
      4096 
      4096 
      4096 
      4096 
      4096 
      4096 
        68 
       456 
       690 
      7926 
      8503 
     19914

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This is what I get:

  ls -l | cut -c 35-41
  
  6 Nov 1
  6 Nov
  6 Nov 1
  6 Nov 1

Well, sure. I said it did character ranges so you don't have to use fields.

What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine?

> What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine?

I would expect the command to work in any directory. Try a few different directories on your computer and you'll see that it won't work in some of them.

> I would expect the command to work in any directory.

But ... why expect that? That's not what "character ranges" mean.

I mean, I was only trying to clarify that `cut` is not limited to fields only.

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