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cut command

Asked by princen

how do i use the cut command on the output of a long directory listing in order to display only the file permissions in ubuntu and then pipe this output to sort and uniq to filter out any double lines. Then use the wc to count the different permission types in this directory

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Best Cesare Montedonico (cmontedonico) said : 		#1

well, its easy,
$ ls -al | cut -d" " -f1 | sort | uniq | wc -l

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princen (spurchampion) said : 		#2

Thanks Cesare Montedonico, that solved my question.