Hello All,
Plz help me with:
I have a csv file with data separated by ',' and optionally enclosed by "". I want to check each of these values to see if they exceed the specified string length, and if they do I want to cut just that value to the max length allowed and keep the csv format as it... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I need to delete the final few characters from a parameter leaving just the first few. However, the characters which need to remain will not always be a string of the same length.
For instance, the parameter will be passed as BN_HSBC_NTRS/hub_mth_ifce.sf. I only need the bit before the... (2 Replies)
Hi!!!
i have two files "tushar20090429200000.txt" and "tushar_err20090429200000.txt"
The numeric part here is date and time.
So this part of file keeps changing after every hour.
I want to extract the numeric part from the both file names and compare them whether they are equal or not.
... (4 Replies)
I did a search but couldn't find a thread that seemed to answer this but my apologies if it has been answered before.
I have some text files and I need to remove any line that does not start with a number (0-9). In actuality every line like this starts with a 'T' (or 't') but there are a... (5 Replies)
Hi Guru's,
Before writing to this forum I have searched extensively on this forum about my problem.
I have to write a shell script which takes out only those file names from the given directory which contains only numbers. For example, In the given directory these files are present:
... (5 Replies)
If I use ls to print all the files of a folder, is there a way to sort using roman numerals?
I am thinking about a result like:
benjamin_I.wmv
benjamin_II.wmv
benjamin_II.wmv
benjamin_III.wmv
benjamin_IV.wmv
benjamin_V.wmv
benjamin_VI.wmv
benjamin_VII.wmv
benjamin_VIII.wmv... (6 Replies)
Hi
Can anyone what I am doing wrong while using cut command.
for f in *.log
do
logfilename=$f
Log "Log file Name: $logfilename"
logfile1=`basename $logfilename .log`
flength=${#logfile1}
Log "file length $flength"
from_length=$(($flength - 15))
Log "from... (2 Replies)
hay
i am trying to get JUST the PID from the ps command.
my command line is:
ps -ef | grep "mintty" | cut -d' ' -f2
but i get an empty line. i assume that the delimiter is not just one space character, but can't figure out what should i do in order to do that.
i know i can use awk or cut... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to view data using cut command for a fixed length file using the below command:
cut -c 1-3,4-5 FALCON_PIS_00000000.dat
I want to mention a separator say | (pipe) in between 1-3 and 4-5.
Please let me know how to achieve this.
Thanks in Advance, (3 Replies)
I'm a complete beginner in UNIX (and not a computer science student either), just undergoing a tutoring course. Trying to replicate the instructions on my own I directed output of the ls listing command (lists all files of my home directory ) to My_dir.tsv file (see the screenshot) to make use of... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: scrutinizerix
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cut
CUT(1) FSF CUT(1)NAME
cut - remove sections from each line of files
SYNOPSIS
cut [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --bytes=LIST
output only these bytes
-c, --characters=LIST
output only these characters
-d, --delimiter=DELIM
use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST
output only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified
-n with -b: don't split multibyte characters
-s, --only-delimited
do not print lines not containing delimiters
--output-delimiter=STRING
use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f. Each LIST is made up of one range, or many ranges separated by commas. Each range is one of:
N N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1
N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
N-M from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field
-M from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by David Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
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 cut is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cut programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info cut
should give you access to the complete manual.
cut (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 CUT(1)