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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting (g)awk how to preseve white spaces (FS characters) or read a right subpart of $0? Post 302338444 by ryandegreat25 on Tuesday 28th of July 2009 02:23:39 AM
Old 07-28-2009
i see.. well maybe you could try narrowing the spaces by. I'm sure there are better suggestions out there.
Code:
echo $x | tr -s " " | cut -d' ' -f8-

I see lets wait reply from others Smilie

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can you show us your script?
 

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NAME
gchem3d - a small chemical viewer application SYNOPSIS
gchem3d [OPTION(S)...] [FILE...] DESCRIPTION
gchem3d is a small chemical viewer application, which can show several chemical file formats. OPTIONS
The following options are accepted: -b COLOR, --bgcolor=COLOR Use the given color as background color. COLOR can be one of "black" (default), "white", "#rrggbb" (don't forget to escape the "#" character in the shell). -d MODEL, --display3d=MODEL Choose how molecules are displayed. MODEL can be one of "BallnStick" (default), "SpaceFill". -?, --help Show application help options. --help-all, --help-* Print all or just a group of help options. These options are not documented here. Instead see gtk-options(7) and gnome-options(7). -v, --version Print gchem3d version information. SEE ALSO
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