1. how to know the cpu speed from c program?
2. how to cut fields of ls -l into a file say iu want ninth field of ls -l output what do i give as delimiter to cut ?

thank you
ram

Question (2) is the easiest to answer first:

ls -l | awk '{print $9}'

Question (1) is more difficult. on a Solaris box, you can run a c System() call and return the the results of the psrinfo -v command.

thank you very much,
i have another doubt;
1.] how to list all files except something
like list all files in a directory except *.o files
2.] how to get more information on the last modified time that is displayed by ls -lt

thank you
ram

Sounds like someone wants all their homework done for them ......