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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting need to extract field of characters in a line Post 302198183 by danmero on Thursday 22nd of May 2008 09:44:26 AM
Old 05-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by joeyg
cat file | cut -c5-17
this will display to screen

cat file | cut -c5-17 >file2
this will send output to file2
Useless use of cat ! Smilie

Code:
cut -c5-17 file.in > file.out

 

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Debian::L10n::Utils(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Debian::L10n::Utils(3pm)

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Debian::L10n::Utils - Utilities for the dl10n tools parse_subject(SUBJECT) parse_subject extract valuable informations from a subject line. It gets a string containing the subject line (SUBJECT). It returns an array containing the status, type, filename strings and bug number if provided or 'undef' if no status is found. parse_from(FROM) parse_from extract the sender name from the 'From:' field. The name is build from the phrase part of the field, or if none is found, from the comment part where parentheses are removed, or if none is found, from the address where all non-alphanumeric characters are turned into spaces. It gets a string containing the 'From:' field (FROM). It returns a string containing the name. parse_date(DATE) parse_date extract the date from a 'Date:' field. It gets a string containing the 'Date:' field (DATE). It returns a string containing the date in ISO format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss AXhh:mm based on GMT LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. COPYRIGHT (C) 2003,2004 Tim Dijkstra 2004 Nicolas Bertolissio 2004 Martin Quinson 2008 Nicolas FranA~Xois perl v5.14.2 2012-01-15 Debian::L10n::Utils(3pm)
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