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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cut Command help Post 302178568 by curleb on Tuesday 25th of March 2008 09:49:23 PM
Old 03-25-2008
Whitespace is not always, if ever, tab chars. You'll want to swap out the \t (or rather "\t") for " ", if not tr the string into something visible:

ps -eaf |grep abc |tr [:space:] ":"

or squeezing them down to single delimiters:

ps -eaf |grep abc |tr -s [:space:] ":"

Also, you'll need to treat each line of output as its own logical "record" for the the cut to be useful. Your previous statement would have only provided you the second word/string of all of the grep results..not the second column.

HTH
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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