Bourne .sh ?

[Aiza]

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