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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problems with cut Post 302189802 by namishtiwari on Monday 28th of April 2008 01:32:59 AM

04-28-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by scorpio

Hi all,

0680046755000011 3040249 3005930 60180GPRS4Samsung_SGH_Z500

This is the format of my log file and parameters for log file are like

� 10 first characters: MSISDN
� 6 next characters: Hour
� 18 next characters: ID SA Source
� 18 next characters: ID SA Destination

I have 11 whitespaces in between my first and second colums.I need to cut fitst 10 char next 6 char and next 18 char(including white spaces) . and i tried follwing in my code

MSISDN=`echo $data | cut -c1-10`
HOUR=`echo $data | cut -c11-16`
ID_SA_SOURCE=`echo $data | cut -c17-35`
ID_SA_DEST=`echo $data | cut -c36-54`

But becos of whitespaces it is not cutting properly.. can any one suggest alternatives

Thnks

First reduce the spaces in between the log file data with the command tr

Code:

HOUR=`echo $data | tr -s " " |cut -c11-16`

give a try to this one.

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