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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Assinging output of cut command Post 302826693 by rbatte1 on Thursday 27th of June 2013 06:31:43 AM
Old 06-27-2013
What you are doing is to execute the files. You probably need something more like this:-
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
 
for i in 19*
 do
  txt=`cut -c -6 $i`
  echo "$txt"
 done

The cut command will get you the sixth character from the file referred to by $i You will also notice that I have removed the space after the =.


How big are the files? More than one record might give odd results. If you want the sixth character from the first line only, then:-
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
 
for i in 19*
 do
  txt=`head -1 $i | cut -c -6`
  echo "$txt"
 done


I hope that this helps.

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
Last edited by rbatte1; 06-27-2013 at 07:33 AM.. Reason: Added section about multiple lines.
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