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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to extract columns from a text file Post 302191767 by ihot on Sunday 4th of May 2008 07:31:47 PM
Old 05-04-2008
oops - how to use "cut" for multi columns
Oops, as it turns out I have access only to "cut" command in UnixDos. My text file actually has a lot of spaces, so the rows look like these:
Department = 1234 __________G/L Asset Acct No = 12.0000._____2/29/2008
Department = 1234___________G/L Asset Acct No = 13.0000._____3/29/2008
I had to use underscore instead of spaces above because this website removes extra spaces from the rows above.


I tried to use cut -c14-18 -c37-39 textfile but it would not cut multi columns.
My final output file should look like these:
1234 12.0000. 2/29/2008
1234 13.0000. 3/29/2008

Is there a way to cut multiple columns? UnixDos does not have "awk".
Thanks again.
Last edited by ihot; 05-05-2008 at 12:40 AM..
 

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pfscut

pfscut(1)						      General Commands Manual							 pfscut(1)

NAME

       pfscut - Extract a rectangle out of a frame in PFS stream

SYNOPSIS

       pfscut [--left <columns>] [--right <columns>] [--top <rows>] [--bottom <rows>] [--width <new_width>] [--height <new_height>] [--help] [x_ul
       y_ul x_br y_br]

DESCRIPTION

       Extract a rectangle out of each frame in PFS stream. You can either specify x and y coordinates of upper left and lower right  corner  (the
       coordinates start with 0 and rise in the left-to-right and up-to-botton directions) or give a combination of the options listed below.

OPTIONS

       --left <columns>, -l <columns>
	      Number of columns to be cut out from the left edge of an image.

       --right <columns>, -r <columns>
	      Number of columns to be cut out from the right edge of an image.

       --top <rows>, -t <rows>
	      Number of rows to be cut out from the top edge of an image.

       --bottom <rows>, -b <rows>
	      Number of rows to be cut out from the bottom edge of an image.

       --width <new_width>, -W <new_width>
	      Width of an output image. Note that --width can be mixed with either --left or --right option.

       --height <new_height>, -H <new_height>
	      Height of an output image. Note that --height can be mixed with either --top or --bottom option.

       --help, -h
	      Print a list of commandline options.

EXAMPLES

       pfsin image.hdr | pfscut --left 20 --top 5 | pfsout out.hdr
	      Cut out 20 columns from the left and 5 rows from the top edge of image.hdr and save frame as out.hdr.

       pfsin image.hdr | pfscut --left 20 --width 400 | pfsout out.hdr
	      Cut out 20 columns from the left edge of image.hdr, and create output image 400 pixels in width.

       pfsin image.hdr | pfscut 0 0 511 511 | pfsout out.hdr
	      Cut  left-upper  part  of  the  image of the size 512x512 (note that coordinates start with 0 and 512 is the last row/column that is
	      included in the resulting image).

       SEE ALSO
	      pfsin(1) pfsout(1)

BUGS

       Please report bugs and comments to Dorota Zdrojewska <dzdrojewska@wi.ps.pl>.

																	 pfscut(1)
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