1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have the following line set line=abc d efg h^ijklmno and then i say: echo $line | cut -d^ -f1 i want to receive this: abc d efg h instead i receive this: abc d efg h how can i ignore blanks in the cut command? (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I am using 'find' on a particular directory which has some subdirectories too,so when I search for .txt files from the parent directory, it gives all files that matches the pattern in the parent aswellas in the sub directories . eg: Iam at /a/b/c where c has many other directories in it ... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Can anyone what I am doing wrong while using cut command. for f in *.log do logfilename=$f Log "Log file Name: $logfilename" logfile1=`basename $logfilename .log` flength=${#logfile1} Log "file length $flength" from_length=$(($flength - 15)) Log "from... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

This should be extremely simple and someone will probably answer it in .5 seconds. I need to know what: VARIABLE=${0##*/} does? I do not have a shell handy to just try it in. I am reading through some scripts and need to understand this line. Any help is appreciated. Many thanks! -... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hay i am trying to get JUST the PID from the ps command. my command line is: ps -ef | grep "mintty" | cut -d' ' -f2 but i get an empty line. i assume that the delimiter is not just one space character, but can't figure out what should i do in order to do that. i know i can use awk or cut... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i have a file abc,"an,ab",cde,efg abc,anab,cde,efg and need to cut the second field so the output should be abc,cde,efg and i have used cut -d',' -f1-1,3- but its giving me abc,ab",cde,efg abc,cde,efg (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am a beginner learning shell script, Would it be possible to use -c and -f in cut command together ? Example : /opt/oracle/work/Antony/Shell_Script> cat shortlist 2233|a.k. shukula |g.m. |sales2 |12/12/52 |6000 1006|chanchal singhvi ... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Team, I want to cut variable string from line and store it in variable. Please help. I/P:- ***Query Completed. 10 rows found. 26 columns returned. So i need this value 10 in my variable. This value may vary from 10 to 1000000 or more. Thanks, Tushar (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I'm a complete beginner in UNIX (and not a computer science student either), just undergoing a tutoring course. Trying to replicate the instructions on my own I directed output of the ls listing command (lists all files of my home directory ) to My_dir.tsv file (see the screenshot) to make use of... (9 Replies)