Re: "fields" in files

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:35:56 Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:16 +0000, Lisi wrote:
> > In teh following:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi    19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt
> >
> > I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or file
> > (information that is also at the beginning of the permissions), owner,
> > group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or directory.
> >
> > What are these called?  I have always called them fields, but it would
> > appear that I am wrong to do so.
>
> directory/file
> user perms-group perms-others perms
> user-group
> size
> last modified timestamp
> file name
>
> I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical name
> though :-)

Thanks, Camaleón!  Yes ,that it what they are in this context.  But in more 
general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the names of 
that particular page etc. -  what are they called?  I want to use it with cut 
if possible, but can't even find if there is a suitable option when I don't 
know what they are called.  Column is too narrow (in the physical sense) a 
definition.  There are 21 of what cut calls columns in the name of the file 
alone in this sample!

Lisi