How can I display only file permissions using the cut command?

Question

linux

How can I use the cut command to display only file permissions on a long listing of a directory?
Let's take the /etc directory.
ls -l /etc
How can I redirect this to the cut command so that it only displays file permissions?

Answer 1

After a minute of reading man cut:

$ ls -l /etc | cut -f 1 -d ' '

drwxr-xr-x
-rw-r--r--
-rw-r--r--
-rw-r--r--
-rw-r--r--
-r--r-----
drwxr-x---
-rw-r--r--
drwxr-xr-x
drwxr-xr-x
drwxr-xr-x
-rw-r--r--
...

Answer 2

ls -l | cut -c1-10

Answer 3

Why cut something right away when there is much more flexibility awk '{print $какой-там-у-вас-номер-поля}'?