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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I cut out this field? Post 302258309 by mojoman on Friday 14th of November 2008 10:10:38 AM

11-14-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zaxxon

Code:

cut -d" " -f 2 infile > outfile

It's not working. I get nothing. The only difference here is you declared the delimiter before the field but the result is the same.... I have cut and paste the file I need to work on below. As you can see there is a huge tab. For some reason the number and name are considered field 7. When I cut f 7 I get the number and name. I hope someone can help me solve this strange problem.

1 Aaliyah
1 Aaron
1 Aba
1 Abel
1 Amanda
1 Andrew
1 Ashley
1 Beavis
1 Buster
1 Cowboys
1 Dakota
1 Dallas
1 Dolphin
1 Friends
1 George
1 Hatton
1 Hockey
1 Internet
1 Jessica
1 Jewel
1 Jordan
1 Justin
2 Maddock

I am using the following:

# cut --version
cut (coreutils) 5.0
Written by David Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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paste

PASTE(1)								FSF								  PASTE(1)

NAME

       paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write  lines  consisting  of  the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.  With no FILE, or
       when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -d, --delimiters=LIST
	      reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

       -s, --serial
	      paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and paste programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info paste

       should give you access to the complete manual.

paste (coreutils) 4.5.3 					   February 2003							  PASTE(1)

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