There are no global field delimiter for all applications
And in many cases you cat set delimiter by hand
i.e.
Code:
# All string is "first" field. Becouse default delimiter is 'tab' character
$ echo "a F bcd eFfghi jkl Fmnop qFrstuv" | cut -f1,2
a F bcd eFfghi jkl Fmnop qFrstuv
#I set delimiter to 'space'
$ echo "a F bcd eFfghi jkl Fmnop qFrstuv" | cut -d' ' -f1,2
a F
#I set delimiter to 'F' letter'
$ echo "a F bcd eFfghi jkl Fmnop qFrstuv" | cut -dF -f1,2
a F bcd e
In awk default delimiter is whitespace sequences
etc.
There are many different delimiters in different programs: spaces, tabs, colons and semicolons, commas and dots, single on multi byte characters, sequences and regexp.
For every taste
Hi
I have a pipe-delimited file where I eventually need to replace a string stored on the 3th field on a specific record.
This is how the file looks like:
A|Mike|Lvl 1|...
B|...
A|Maria|Lvl 1|...
C|...
B|...
A|Jimmy|Lvl 2|...
C|...
A|Carry|Lvl 0|...
C|...
B|...
A|John|Lvl 8|...... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have data in a file something like this -
UNB+UNOA:1+006415160:1+AR0000012360:ZZ+080701:0552+2++DELFOR++++T'UNH+2+DELFOR:D:97A:UN
Here, the delimiters used are + , : and ' . I have a set of such files in which these delimiters vary from one file to another.
I am developing a... (4 Replies)
Hello,
this thread is more about scripting style than a specific issue.
I've to grep from a output some lines and from them obtain a specific entry delimited by < and >.
This is my way :
1) grep -i user list | awk '{FS="<";print $NF}' | sed -e 's/>//g'
2) grep -i user list | cut -d","... (10 Replies)
Line from input file
a : b : c " d " e " f : g : h " i " j " k " l
output
k b a
Its taking 7th word when " is the delimiter, 2nd and 1st word when : is the delimiter and returning all in one line.... I am on solaris
Thanks..... (1 Reply)
I have a file having lines like:
14: <a="b" val="c"/>
18: <a="x" val="d"/>
54: <a="b" val="c"/>
58: <a="x" val="e"/>
I need to create a file with output:
14
d
54
e
So basically, for every odd line I need 1st word if delimiter is ':' and for every even... (14 Replies)
Hi Team,
I am trying to get the data in below format
Jan 01 | 19:00:32 | xyz | abc | sometext | string
however I am not sure of the total number strings which can come in the record hence i cant use something like below as it can end $6 or it can go further
cat file| awk... (8 Replies)
Hi
I am new to Unix Shell scripting have a requirement where I have to replace the "unix 1 byte delimiter" with the "pipe" separator and also remove any carriage returns and line feeds if any
The Source File
4 QFH Jungle Hill 32-34 City Road London SE23 3UX
the output should be ... (3 Replies)
I have a file which is separated by delimiter "|", but the prob is one of my column do contain delimiter as description so how can i differentiate it?
PS : the delmiter does have backslash coming before it, if occurring in column
Annual|Beleagured|Desc|Denver... (2 Replies)
BASH : I have a very long list I am parsing through:
10/10/19... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jeffs42885
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
cut
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.
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
--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
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report cut bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report cut translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 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
The full documentation for cut is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cut programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'cut invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 CUT(1)
10-19-2012
