1. Is there a way to count the number of bytes of a variable?
example:
abc@yahoo.com is 13 bytes
2. Cut command only allows one byte for delimiter
example: cut -f1 -d'.'
delimited by period. Is there a way to have two or more characters in the delimiter field?
thanks in adavance.
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Hi
I have a shell script that looks for running processes in order to kill them. The script (ksh) gets the PID of these processes using the following:
PROCS=`ps -fu ${USERID} | egrep "MONITOR" | grep -v grep | cut -d" " -f4`
However, I spotted an issue where PID's of different lengths... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to use the cut command on the following output to remove the first 2 columns (this is output of "find -ls", if anyone wondering, which for some bizarre reason inserts leading spaces on AIX):
file.txt:
16 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root tech 3186 Apr 15 04:00 ./file1
2140... (4 Replies)
Hi People,
I need some Help to write a unix script that asks for a sentence to be typed out then with the sentence. Counts the number of spaces within the sentence and then echo's out "The Number Of Spaces In The Sentence is 4" as a example
Thanks
Danielle (12 Replies)
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I tried to extract 19 characters (default) enclosed with in tag from a file using cut command. If the characters comprises of double space, the cut command gives the output with a single spacing.
file 1
<name>Kumar Rajasekaran</name>
cut -c7-26 "file1"
the out put i received is ... (48 Replies)
Hi everyone
I have a file looks like this
X01 1 JOE 20100312
X02 TOD 20100312
X03 3 SAM 20100312
I wrote a script to assign the values in 5 columns to 5 variables. When I use cut command to assign column 2 or 3, it skips it if it is a space (see below)
... (3 Replies)
I want to count the number of occurence of a particular string with spaces from one text file.
I found one posting of a similar kind but looking for a string without spaces, there were lots of reply's which work when the string does not have any spaces between but in my case i must look into a... (7 Replies)
I would like to cut words based on the word count of a line. This over here inspired me with some ideas but I wasn't able to get what I needed.
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/105841-count-words-each-line-file-using-xargs.html
If the line has 6 words I would like to use this.... (8 Replies)
I am new to cut and I want to use the field option with a space delimiter on an Apache log file.
For example, if I wanted to find the 200 HTTP code using cut in this manner on the file below
cat access_abc.log | cut -d' ' -f7 | grep "200"
157.55.39.183 - - "GET /content/696-news041305... (4 Replies)
Script showStreamsGLIS$reg.$env.ksh gives me output as below-
Job Stime Etime Status ExitCode
GLIS-AS-S-EFL-LOCK-B ----- ----- OI 103313880/0
GLIS-ALL-Q-EOD-FX-UPDT-1730-B ----- ----- TE 0/0
GLIS-TK-S-BWSOD-B ... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tanu
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
cut
CUT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CUT(1)NAME
cut -- cut out selected portions of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
cut -c list [file ...]
cut -f list [-w | -d delim] [-s] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cut utility cuts out selected portions of each line (as specified by list) from each file and writes them to the standard output. If no
file arguments are specified, or a file argument is a single dash ('-'), cut reads from the standard input. The items specified by list can
be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column and field numbering start from 1.
The list option argument is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or number ranges. Number ranges consist of a num-
ber, a dash ('-'), and a second number and select the columns or fields from the first number to the second, inclusive. Numbers or number
ranges may be preceded by a dash, which selects all columns or fields from 1 to the last number. Numbers or number ranges may be followed by
a dash, which selects all columns or fields from the last number to the end of the line. Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlap-
ping, and in any order. It is not an error to select columns or fields not present in the input line.
The options are as follows:
-b list
The list specifies byte positions.
-c list
The list specifies character positions.
-d delim
Use delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character.
-f list
The list specifies fields, separated in the input by the field delimiter character (see the -d option). Output fields are separated
by a single occurrence of the field delimiter character.
-n Do not split multi-byte characters. Characters will only be output if at least one byte is selected, and, after a prefix of zero or
more unselected bytes, the rest of the bytes that form the character are selected.
-s Suppress lines with no field delimiter characters. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
-w Use whitespace (spaces and tabs) as the delimiter. Consecutive spaces and tabs count as one single field separator.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of cut as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The cut utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
Extract users' login names and shells from the system passwd(5) file as ``name:shell'' pairs:
cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd
Show the names and login times of the currently logged in users:
who | cut -c 1-16,26-38
SEE ALSO colrm(1), paste(1)STANDARDS
The cut utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
HISTORY
A cut command appeared in AT&T System III UNIX.
BSD August 8, 2012 BSD