Hey Everybody,
I am having much trouble figuring this out, as I am not really a programmer..:mad:
Datafile.txt
Column0 Column1 Column2
ABC DEF xxxGHI
I am running using WGET on a cronjob to grab a datafile, but I need to cut the first three characters from... (6 Replies)
Hi Forum
I have a tab delimited file that opens well in Openoffice calc (excel). But when I perform any operation in command line, it reads the file incorrectly. When I 'save As' the same file in office as tab delimited then it works fine.
The file that I think is tab delimited is actually... (8 Replies)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
hi
i have a requirement to input a string to a shell script and to split the string to multiple fields,
the string is copied from a row of three columns (name,age,address) in an excel sheet.
the three columns (from excel) are seperated with a tab when pasted in the command prompt, but when the ... (2 Replies)
Hi How to make tab delimited file to space delimited?
in put file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
o/p file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
Use code tags, thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
Hi there,
I would like to use awk to reformat a tab-delimited file containing three columns as follows:
Data file:
sample 1 173
sample 269 530
sample 687 733
sample 1699 1779
Desired output file:
sample 174..265, 531..686, 734..1698
I need the value... (5 Replies)
Hello Everyone..
I want to replace the retail col from FileI with cstp1 col from FileP if the strpno matches in both files
FileP.txt
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: YogeshG
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
cut
CUT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CUT(1)NAME
cut -- select portions of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
cut -c list [file ...]
cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cut utility selects portions of each line (as specified by list) from each file and writes them to the standard output. If no file argu-
ments are specified, or a file argument is a single dash ('-'), cut reads from from the standard input. The items specified by list can be
in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1.
The list option argument is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or number ranges. Number ranges consist of a num-
ber, a dash ('-'), and a second number and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second, inclusive. Numbers or number
ranges may be preceded by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from 1 to the first number. Numbers or number ranges may be followed
by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from the last number to the end of the line. Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, over-
lapping, and in any order. It is not an error to select fields or columns not present in the input line.
The options are as follows:
-b list
The list specifies byte positions.
-c list
The list specifies character positions.
-d delim
Use the first character of delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character.
-f list
The list specifies fields, delimited in the input by a single tab character. Output fields are separated by a single tab character.
-n Do not split multi-byte characters.
-s Suppress lines with no field delimiter characters. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of cut if the -n option is specified. Their effect is described in
environ(7).
EXAMPLES
Extract users' login names and shells from the system passwd(5) file as ``name:shell'' pairs:
cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd
Show the names and login times of the currently logged in users:
who | cut -c 1-16,26-38
DIAGNOSTICS
The cut utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO paste(1)STANDARDS
The cut utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
HISTORY
A cut command appeared in AT&T System III UNIX.
BUGS
The -c option is a synonym for the -b option, which causes incorrect behaviour in locales that support multibyte characters.
When operating on fields (-f option is specified), cut does not recognise multibyte characters, and the delim character is recognised in the
middle of multibyte sequences.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD