Hello Gurus,
This is my first ever post here. I tried looking for similar material but came up empty handed. Apologies if this is too verbose or if I'm not using the correct formatting.
I have files containing a fixed number of elements per line; separator is a single space. Each line has the number of elements and a line identifier as "prefix". For example, s_04 contains:
What I want is to cut each field in turn, and keep track of which field was cut. For example s_04.cut would contain
So far, I'm able to cut each field in turn and append it to the desired output file:
The problem is I don't know how to construct a pipe in which somehow $j is echoed/pasted/inserted after the first two fields in the output file. I'm using an awk script to generate the cut fields externally and then using cut and paste to insert it. It works but it's clunky and am looking for something more elegant and "unixy"
I would be grateful for any guidance. In case it matters, I'm working in some recent flavor of Ubuntu.
Hi folks,
I need to find the following value:
First,I need to find the starting section by finding the line:
<process-type id="OC4J_RiGHTv_${SCHEMA_NAME}" module-id="OC4J">
Second,under this line I need to find the following line:
<port id="rmi" range="3765-3776"/>
And third,from this line... (4 Replies)
Hi there !
I have file with single column. I want to cut that column at fixed number of rows each time and paste in another file, in a way that in new file, the each cutting appear as separate columns.
I mean cutting file with one column of 10000 rows, with 100 rows each time, and in new file... (3 Replies)
I am having a stupid moment :-)
I have a tab-delimited file with 2 columns. I want to keep the first column as it is, but I only want the first 8 characters of the 2nd column.
Example of input file data:
---------------------------------
CATERPILLARS CW001651K.dwg... (9 Replies)
First I have to say thank you to this community and this forum. You helped me very much builing several useful scripts.
Now, I can't get a solution the following problem, I'm stuck somehow. Maybe someone has an idea.
In short, I dump a site via lynx and pipe the output in a file. I need to... (7 Replies)
I have a script in a directory and want to search the directory before like follows:
i=0
for file in ../HN_*
do
echo $file
((i+=1))
echo $i
done
Currently I get following output:
../HN_2
1
../HN_3
2 (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a tab-delimited txt file as below. It is part of the original file.
I want to cut the lines starting with "3" in column1 and paste them before the lines starting with "1" in column 1. So I will get
Anyone knows any simple shell scripts to do that? The original file is... (5 Replies)
I have two text files: One is a single column of numbers and the other is a space delimited text file with multiple columns. I want to paste the single column of numbers into the second column of the latter text file. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
I have a file laid out in columns with the first two lines line being:
219 432 4567
219 432 4587
I need to create a single line command to cut the characters in the 5th column and paste them back to the first column in the same file. (Hint:Two good solutions exist, one in which you use a... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I tried to use the paste command to paste two files with different number of lines.
e.g.
file1
A 1
B 1
C 2
D 2
file2
A 2
B 3
C 4
D 4
E 4 (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I having a data file which consists of 20cr records in it. The 1st column is year field which consist of year in format 200809 and fields are seperated with ^.
How do i trim it to 2008 in file and save it in a quick time as there are many records so that i can use the file for loading... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: abhi_123
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
cut
cut(1) User Commands cut(1)NAME
cut - cut out selected fields of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
cut -b list [-n] [file...]
cut -c list [file...]
cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
Use the cut utility to cut out columns from a table or fields from each line of a file; in data base parlance, it implements the projection
of a relation. The fields as specified by list can be fixed length, that is, character positions as on a punched card (-c option) or the
length can vary from line to line and be marked with a field delimiter character like <TAB> (-f option). cut can be used as a filter.
Either the -b, -c, or -f option must be specified.
Use grep(1) to make horizontal ``cuts'' (by context) through a file, or paste(1) to put files together column-wise (that is, horizontally).
To reorder columns in a table, use cut and paste.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
list A comma-separated or blank-character-separated list of integer field numbers (in increasing order), with optional - to
indicate ranges (for instance, 1,4,7; 1-3,8; -5,10 (short for 1-5,10); or 3- (short for third through last field)).
-b list The list following -b specifies byte positions (for instance, -b1-72 would pass the first 72 bytes of each line). When -b
and -n are used together, list is adjusted so that no multi-byte character is split.
-c list The list following -c specifies character positions (for instance, -c1-72 would pass the first 72 characters of each line).
-d delim The character following -d is the field delimiter (-f option only). Default is tab. Space or other characters with special
meaning to the shell must be quoted. delim can be a multi-byte character.
-f list The list following -f is a list of fields assumed to be separated in the file by a delimiter character (see -d ); for
instance, -f1,7 copies the first and seventh field only. Lines with no field delimiters will be passed through intact (use-
ful for table subheadings), unless -s is specified.
-n Do not split characters. When -b list and -n are used together, list is adjusted so that no multi-byte character is split.
-s Suppresses lines with no delimiter characters in case of -f option. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters will be
passed through untouched.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file A path name of an input file. If no file operands are specified, or if a file operand is -, the standard input will be
used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of cut when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte (2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Mapping user IDs
A mapping of user IDs to names follows:
example% cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd
Example 2: Setting current login name
To set name to current login name:
example$ name=`who am i | cut -f1 -d' '`
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of cut: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All input files were output successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO grep(1), paste(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)DIAGNOSTICS
cut: -n may only be used with -b
cut: -d may only be used with -f
cut: -s may only be used with -f
cut: cannot open <file> Either file cannot be read or does not exist. If multiple files are present, processing continues.
cut: no delimiter specified Missing delim on -d option.
cut: invalid delimiter
cut: no list specified Missing list on -b, -c, or -f option.
cut: invalid range specifier
cut: too many ranges specified
cut: range must be increasing
cut: invalid character in range
cut: internal error processing input
cut: invalid multibyte character
cut: unable to allocate enough memory
SunOS 5.10 29 Apr 1999 cut(1)