UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Originally Posted by Seer

By default cut and awk use "space" as the default field separator.

Originally Posted by sopel39

how to make cut and awk treat "a b" as a single column rather then two separate columns "a and b"?
how to remove " symbol from "a b" so there is only a b?

Please help
Regards
Karol

Originally Posted by sopel39

input is a file which can contain " symbols
and cut or awk should interpete line like this...

temp=(qwer "sdfg sdfg" asdf)

lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts$ cat textfile.txt
Male "adam jones" angling
"Not confirmed" "paul higgins" "clothes and music"
Female "kelly lowe" shoes
lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts$ cat quoted-text.sh
#!/bin/bash
while read line; do
command="slask=($line)"
eval $command
for (( i=0 ; i<${#slask[*]} ; i++ )) ; do
echo -n ${slask[i]} === ;
done
echo
done <textfile.txt
lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts$ chmod +x quoted-text.sh
lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts$ ./quoted-text.sh
Male ===adam jones ===angling ===
Not confirmed ===paul higgins ===clothes and music ===
Female ===kelly lowe ===shoes ===
lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts$