awk - change field separator

[georgeocrawford]

Hi,

I'm piping the results of an

ls -l

into this awk command:

awk '{print $9"\tF\t"$5}'

However, when this is run on a filename with a space in it, I just get the first word of the filename printed.

I think I need to change the default field separator from whitespace to just tabs - is that correct? If so:

awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\t" } ; { print $9"\tF\t"$5}'

which I tried, but it doesn't work (prints nothing).

Can someone please help with my command-line syntax for awk!

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George

 

[georgeocrawford]

it's absolute.

Thanks again for the proof-read!


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George