Sorry didn't mention earlier, the comments fields may contain the delimiter ; the reason why Iam using cut.
I guess cut cant do this. Im using
One thing I observed with cut is
gives same output as
and cut performance is bad when used in loop. awk performed well even when used in loop. But the cut command syntax was simpler, the reason I was trying for a solution with it.
Thanks for your replies
Hi All,
Need to convert file names to upper case using tr command in Unix.
In a folder -> /apps/dd01/misc
there are two files like:
pi-abcd567sd.pdf
pi-efgh1.pdf
The output of should be like:
pi-ABCD567SD.pdf
pi-EFGH1.pdf
I have used the command to work as below:
for f... (3 Replies)
Guys,
can you help me in doing cut first 21 and 32-35 characters from file.
I tried with cut -c to cut first 21 characters ,It is succeeded.
But i need both first 21 and 32-35. (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I am trying to execute the below command. However the output shows the value + path of the folder where the command is being executed. But I am only interested in the value but not the path.
du -hs /aps/inf/SeLogs
when I execute the above command, output is
32G... (5 Replies)
I need to cut the last seven characters of a variable length variable. The variable may be 7 characters or 70. I need to always be able to grab the last 7 characters. I looked at the cut command but it always seems to want to start at the beginning of a line, not the end and count backwards.
... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a fixed width flatfile, I want to view this file specific to it's character position and in order I want to...example as below
ABCDE.txt
01COLTSMANNING18
02PATS BRADY 12
03PACKSROGERS 12I used unix cut command to see specific field based on length but unable to order them as... (6 Replies)
helloo
I wonder if there's a way to cut characters out of a string and keep only
the last 2 by using sed.
For example if there's the todays' date:
2012-05-06
and we only want to keep the last 2 characters which are the day.
Is there a quick way to do it with sed? (2 Replies)
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I have a file like this
abc.tpt.ctl
bdc.tpt.ctl
cdw.tpt.ctl
I have looped every line using the for Loop, now I want to take each line and cut the .tpt.ctl part of it and store it in a variable and use the variable in same loop.
The part I am stuck at is how do I cut the last... (9 Replies)
Hello All,
I have to write a shell logic inside my ANT Script , the data from my ANT is in the string like
string a = "test1.props,test2.props,*,test3.props,?,test4,props"
how do i remove this wild card characters from my string a and assign them to an other string , like i only want to... (9 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a file and would like to cut the first 100 characters of the first line. I tried it with the ‘cut’-command:
cut –c100- $file > $file.tmp
But this does not work, because it will cut the first 100 characters of each line. But I need to cut them only from the beginning of... (6 Replies)