I can not make it work, it prints \t rather than introduce tabs.
Since I am running this command within a shell script, I tried manually inserting tab in this command, still does not work. I am using bash shell
Suggestions highly appreciated
hello..
my prob is as follows:
i have to read from a file which may have different formats depending upon the delimiter used in the data of the file.now i need that the user input the delimiter.the input delimiter is stored in a variable and is used on cut command to retrieve necessary... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Can the cut command have double character delimiter?
If yes, how can we use it.
if my data file contains :
apple || mango || grapes
i used
cut -f1 -d"||" filename
but got an error.
Plz help....
Thanks. (1 Reply)
I have a command that when ran it will have an output such as
string LongerString
string2 longerString2
More MoreStrings
seperated by tabs. The command lists domains and their accounts set up in my server admin software (interworx).
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I've a situation where,
a=xxx.yyy.zzz.txt
EXTN=`echo $a | cut -d . -f2`
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Hi all,
I have a number of strings like below:
//mnt/autocor/43°13'(33")W/
and i'm trying to get the numbers in this string, for example
431333
please help
thanks ahead (14 Replies)
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Command :
ls dir|grep 'filename'|cut -d '_' -f1|cut -c1-8|tr '\n' ','
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Hello,All
Suppose I have a file like following:
aaa;bbb;ccc
ddd;eee;fffI want the output like:
aaa|bbb|ccc
ddd|eee|fffTo do this, i wrote the code:
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LSCRM(Application Name):
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Hi All,
We have a requirement of picking nth position value by using cut command. value would be delimited by any symbols. We have to pass delimited value and postition to get the value in a string.
ex.
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echo "A|B|C|D|E"|cut -d "|" -f2
Kindly frame the... (5 Replies)