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Old 05-05-2008
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help abt cut command

Hi friends,
I have a small doubt about cut command.

cut -f2 -d_

Can anybody tel me what does the underscore after 'd' stand for? Is it some kind of comment, coz I am not able to make out any difference when I executed the below command...

head -10 file.txt|cut -f2 -d_

It was printing all 10 records without any change no matter what the field was.
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it means your delimeter is _.
you are trying to get the second field. and your file is delimed by _
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I m sorry guys.. got to know my mistake
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Appreciate your quick response. I got to know my silly mistake. Thank you.
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it means your delimeter is _.
you are trying to get the second field. and your file is delimed by _
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