I have a list of files in a directory that I want to check position 2-6 for a string of EPIP or EPCN. I ran the following command but it isn't working correctly:
ls EPDa*.*.*.data |cut -c1-30
All it is doing is cutting the file name not what is in the file. Any help would be appreciated. (3 Replies)
I have a person running a perl script that is parsing > 2G log files and pipes to cut -d " " -f 1,6,7,8...
The script itself is in a nfs mounted home directory. It runs fine when started from a solaris 8 box but fails after about 400 lines when started from the solaris 10 box. The solaris... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me how to use cut command?I have tried but its not working...Please find the details below :
$ cat file1
SlNo. E_ID E_Name Age Dept
1 123 A 20 Electrical
2 124 B 20 Electronics
3 125 C 24 Computer
4 126 D 23 Mechanical
... (3 Replies)
Gurus,
I need help with the cut command :
I have a file with garbage charaters at the beginning of each record; but these characters are not of the same length;
First record has 3 garbage chars to be removed; rest have 2;
If the length was consistent across all the records, I could have... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a line of digits with no delimiters (but fixed record length for each fields). for example
aaaa1234bbbb
field 1 is 4 digit long, field 2 is 4 digit long and so on.
I need to cut fields 1 and 3, and while outputting I need a delimiter between the fields.
I can cut... (3 Replies)
Hi
I am using 'find' on a particular directory which has some subdirectories too,so when I search for .txt files from the parent directory, it gives all files that matches the pattern in the parent aswellas in the sub directories .
eg:
Iam at /a/b/c
where c has many other directories in it ... (7 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)
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)