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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with cut or awk command Post 302908495 by ATWC on Tuesday 8th of July 2014 09:36:32 AM
Old 07-08-2014
Help with cut or awk command
i am trying to cut the 4th field from the file.
sample file
Code:
a1,a2,"a,3",a4,a5,a6
b1,"b,2",b3,b4,b5,b6
c1,"c,2","c,3",c4,c5,c6

i need the output in the format of
Code:
a1,a2,"a,3",a5,a6
b1,"b,2",b3,b5,b6
c1,"c,2","c,3",c5,c6

i tried using cut -d, -f1-4,6-
but i am getting the output as
Code:
a1,a2,"a,3",a5,a6
b1,"b,2",b3,b5,b6
c1,"c,2","c,c4,c5,c6

which is wrong. any other method to do this correctly?
 

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