Changing the behaviour of ls, possibly via a script

[Tim Chase]

> Tim: why did you skip $2 in the awk version?

On my version of /bin/ls on two different boxes returned the 
hard-link count as the 2nd parameter.  It could easily have been 
included if that information was germane to the OP...just add 
another "%s" in the format string, and toss the $2 in at the 
associated position in the parameter list.  However, as the OP 
just wanted the file-name, the permissions, and the owner/group, 
I just used those fields.

Does your version of ls return something else in the 2nd column?

-tim