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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cut with delimiter respect text Post 302678175 by anandapani on Friday 27th of July 2012 11:11:26 AM
Old 07-27-2012
Question cut with delimiter respect text
Hi,
Can someone help me to get the shortest command

Input file
=========
Code:
I|know|"english|french"
It|can|have|four|delimiters

Desired output
===========
Code:
"english|french"
have

If I use cut -d "|" -f3 , i am getting "english as 3rd field.But I would like to get the whole text in quotes("") as 3rd field. I have this problem only in 3rd field. Any help is higly appreciated. Thank you,

Initially, i tried to convert all | symbols within quotes to # and to use the CUT -d "|" to extract the 3rd field, then again replace back all # to |. But it is very lengthy, Any short and efficient command is very helpful,

Cheers,
Last edited by joeyg; 07-27-2012 at 12:18 PM.. Reason: Please wrap data and sripts with CodeTags
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

british-english

british-english(5)						   Users' Manual						british-english(5)

NAME

       british-english - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/british-english is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       There  may  be  any  number  of	word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and  is  the  name  by  which
       other  software should refer to the system word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
       chosen word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and  /usr/share/dict/danish  contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does  not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Word  lists  are  collected and maintained by various authors.  The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
       ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

Debian								   16 June 2003 						british-english(5)
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