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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cut -- line with no delimiters Post 302349873 by chlorine on Wednesday 2nd of September 2009 06:09:36 AM
Old 09-02-2009
cut -- line with no delimiters

I just discovered, to my dismay, the following part of the cut man page:

-f, --fields=LIST
select only these fields;
also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified

The -s option toggles the printing of lines with no delimiters.

In most cases, I would like lines with no delimiters to be considered as lines with a single field, so that:
Code:
$ echo "a" | cut -d' ' -f 1

would output a,
and
Code:
$ echo "a" | cut -d' ' -f 2

would output an empty line.

Is there an alternate version of cut where this is possible, or an option I don't know about?
As far as I understand, there is no option of cut that would return an empty line in the second case: if I use the -s option there is no line of output.

I can always use awk but in many cases this is not practical for me.
 

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CUT(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            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. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -b, --bytes=LIST select only these bytes -c, --characters=LIST select only these characters -d, --delimiter=DELIM use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter -f, --fields=LIST select only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified -n (ignored) --complement complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields -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 -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --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. Selected input is written in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once. 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 AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report cut translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cut> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) cut invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 CUT(1)
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