With cut -b... and cut -c... the input delimiter is never used anyway. And, since you are creating a single sequence of characters (not fields), I'm not sure you can specify an output field delimiter either. The version of cut I use doesn't have an --output-delimiter option.
You could try:
but you'll probably need something more like:
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I am on a Linux system using bash shell.
I only want to see the number in the Use% field as the output.
#df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dasda1 2.3G 2.1G 51M 98% /
!#/bin/bash
df -h / | awk '{print $5}' | cut -c1-2
Us
98
How do... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am triying to make sure that there exists only one file with the pattern abc* in path /path/. This directory is having many huge files. If there is only one file then I have to take its complete name only to use furter in my script.
I am planning to do like this:
if ; then... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have an requirement related to delim count. I want to remove the lines having less than or equal to 2 fields in a csv file. In other words, I want to retrieve the records having more than 2 fields.
I can do this using a loop with tr and wc -l command by parsing record by record.... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need to cut the first 12 system processes from the command ps -A. I know that the cut command forms part of the pipeline but can't understand how to cut the first 12 lines and later display them on standard output. Please help!
Many thanks, Jared. (3 Replies)
hello,
i use following command:
md5sum TEST.xml
the output looks like:
900hjidur84hjr938ikv TEST.xml
as you can see, the first part is the md5 code, the second part is the file name, but i only want the first part(md5 code), and save it to a file, how to do that? thanks. (2 Replies)
I can not make it work, it prints \t rather than introduce tabs.
cut -d "," -f 4,8 Samples.csv --output-delimiter="\t" | sort > out
Since I am running this command within a shell script, I tried manually inserting tab in this command, still does not work. I am using bash shell
Suggestions... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have the files in the following files in a folder
19996587342
19487656550
19534838736
And i need to get the first 6 characters from the abvoe files
so i used the following script
#!/bin/ksh
for i in 19*
do
txt= `$i | cut -c -6`
echo "$txt"
done
The error is at... (4 Replies)
OS : RHEL 6.8
Shell : bash
I want to remove all lines like below from the history output as it has password.
$ history | grep sqlplus
239 sqlplus jn_usr/dxc825#@10.5.12.106/OCSGPD
256 sqlplus osb_soa/KD1egM09@10.5.12.196/BSOAPRD
279 sqlplus jn_usr/dxc825#@10.80.16.219/OCSGPD... (5 Replies)
Apply if condition (in column 3rd ) to all lines of tab delim which have same value in a particular column (in this case column2)
Input:
id1 Disease1 High
id2 Disease1 Medium
id3 Disease1 Low
id4 Disease2 Low
id5 Disease3 Medium
id6 Disease3 Low
***
Expected output
id1 Disease1 High... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lini
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cut
CUT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CUT(1)NAME
cut -- cut out selected portions of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
cut -c list [file ...]
cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cut utility cuts out selected portions of each line (as specified by list) from each file and writes them to the standard output. If no
file arguments are specified, or a file argument is a single dash ('-'), cut reads from the standard input. The items specified by list can
be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1.
The list option argument is a comma or whitespace separated set of numbers and/or number ranges. Number ranges consist of a number, a dash
('-'), and a second number and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second, inclusive. Numbers or number ranges may be
preceded by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from 1 to the last number. Numbers or number ranges may be followed by a dash, which
selects all fields or columns from the last number to the end of the line. Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlapping, and in
any order. If a field or column is specified multiple times, it will appear only once in the output. It is not an error to select fields or
columns not present in the input line.
The options are as follows:
-b list
The list specifies byte positions.
-c list
The list specifies character positions.
-d delim
Use delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character.
-f list
The list specifies fields, separated in the input by the field delimiter character (see the -d option.) Output fields are separated
by a single occurrence of the field delimiter character.
-n Do not split multi-byte characters. Characters will only be output if at least one byte is selected, and, after a prefix of zero or
more unselected bytes, the rest of the bytes that form the character are selected.
-s Suppress lines with no field delimiter characters. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of cut as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The cut utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
Extract users' login names and shells from the system passwd(5) file as ``name:shell'' pairs:
cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd
Show the names and login times of the currently logged in users:
who | cut -c 1-16,26-38
SEE ALSO colrm(1), paste(1)STANDARDS
The cut utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
HISTORY
A cut command appeared in AT&T System III UNIX.
BSD December 21, 2006 BSD