Retaining default OFS

Hi,

I wat to remove the first two columns of the ls -l command:

$ ls -l | awk '{ $1="";$2="";print;}'

The only problem is now the columns of the output is space separated instead of the separators the ls -l originally throws. Can someone tell how to preserve the default OFS of an ls -l command?
Thanks

Hi amicon007,

I don't think the OFS changed. Can you post a sample output.

Try this:

ls -l|cut -d' ' -f4-

Adjust "16" for your ls -la output.

ls -l | cut -c16-