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From: bguthy@engin.umich.edu (bala s guthy )
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Subject: sed expressions
Keywords: sed filters
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Date: 27 Mar 91 03:29:40 GMT
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Can some kind soul explain why the following command prints the first
and the last columns of the ls -l command.



% ls -l | sed 's/[1-9].* //'
% drwx------  xy1991


I can see why it prints the first field but not why it prints the last one.

Thank you.