Is there a quicker way of getting a couple of column of values than futzing with sed and awk?For instance, if I have the output of ls -hal / and I want to just get the file and directory names and sizes, how can I easily and quickly doing that, without having to spend several minutes tweaking my command.  total 16078drwxr-xr-x    33 root  wheel   1.2K Aug 13 16:57 .drwxr-xr-x    33 root  wheel   1.2K Aug 13 16:57 ..-rw-rw-r--     1 root  admin    15K Aug 14 00:41 .DS_Stored--x--x--x     8 root  wheel   272B Jun 20 16:40 .DocumentRevisions-V100drwxr-xr-x+    3 root  wheel   102B Mar 27 12:26 .MobileBackupsdrwx------     5 root  wheel   170B Jun 20 15:56 .Spotlight-V100d-wx-wx-wt     2 root  wheel    68B Mar 27 12:26 .Trashesdrwxrwxrwx     4 root  wheel   136B Mar 30 20:00 .bzvolsrwxrwxrwx     1 root  wheel     0B Aug 13 16:57 .dbfseventsd----------     1 root  admin     0B Aug 16  2012 .filedrwx------  1275 root  wheel    42K Aug 14 00:05 .fseventsddrwxr-xr-x@    2 root  wheel    68B Jun 20  2012 .voldrwxrwxr-x+  289 root  admin   9.6K Aug 13 10:29 Applicationsdrwxrwxr-x     7 root  admin   238B Mar  5 20:47 Developerdrwxr-xr-x+   69 root  wheel   2.3K Aug 12 21:36 Librarydrwxr-xr-x@    2 root  wheel    68B Aug 16  2012 Networkdrwxr-xr-x+    4 root  wheel   136B Mar 27 12:17 Systemdrwxr-xr-x     6 root  admin   204B Mar 27 12:22 Usersdrwxrwxrwt@    6 root  admin   204B Aug 13 23:57 Volumesdrwxr-xr-x@   39 root  wheel   1.3K Jun 20 15:54 bindrwxrwxr-t@    2 root  admin    68B Aug 16  2012 coresdr-xr-xr-x     3 root  wheel   4.8K Jul  6 13:08 devlrwxr-xr-x@    1 root  wheel    11B Mar 27 12:09 etc -> private/etcdr-xr-xr-x     2 root  wheel     1B Aug 12 21:41 home-rw-r--r--@    1 root  wheel   7.8M May  1 20:57 mach_kerneldr-xr-xr-x     2 root  wheel     1B Aug 12 21:41 netdrwxr-xr-x@    6 root  wheel   204B Mar 27 12:22 privatedrwxr-xr-x@   68 root  wheel   2.3K Jun 20 15:54 sbinlrwxr-xr-x@    1 root  wheel    11B Mar 27 12:09 tmp -> private/tmpdrwxr-xr-x@   13 root  wheel   442B Mar 29 23:32 usrlrwxr-xr-x@    1 root  wheel    11B Mar 27 12:09 var -> private/varI realize there are a bazillion options for ls and I could probably do it for this particular example that way, but this is a general problem and I'd like a general solution to getting specific columns easily and quickly. cut doesn't cut it because it doesn't take a regular expression, and I virtually never have the situation where there's a single space delimiting columns.  This would be perfect if it would work:ls -hal / | cut -d'\s' -f5,9awk and sed are more general than I want, basically entire languages unto themselves.  I have nothing against them, it's just that unless I've recently being doing a lot with them, it requires a pretty sizable mental shift to start thinking in their terms and write something that works.  I'm usually in the middle of thinking about some other problem I'm trying to solve and suddenly having to solve a sed/awk problem throws off my focus.Is there a flexible shortcut to achieving what I want?
Easily get a particular column from output without sed or awk
text processing;sed;awk;columns