Originally Posted by scorpio

Hi all,


0680046755000011 3040249 3005930 60180GPRS4Samsung_SGH_Z500

This is the format of my log file and parameters for log file are like

• 10 first characters: MSISDN
• 6 next characters: Hour
• 18 next characters: ID SA Source
• 18 next characters: ID SA Destination

I have 11 whitespaces in between my first and second colums.I need to cut fitst 10 char next 6 char and next 18 char(including white spaces) . and i tried follwing in my code

MSISDN=`echo $data | cut -c1-10`
HOUR=`echo $data | cut -c11-16`
ID_SA_SOURCE=`echo $data | cut -c17-35`
ID_SA_DEST=`echo $data | cut -c36-54`

But becos of whitespaces it is not cutting properly.. can any one suggest alternatives

Thnks