I didn't know that awk can have multiple field delimiters . So, -F"'|;" means , the field delimiter can be either a single quote or a semicolon .
Why was semicolon included as the delimiter ? Because, the following command without semicolon as the delimiter works fine too.
Hello there
I need to find a string in an file, and then copy to a new file from the previous 6 lines to 41 lines after the string.
So, what i need to do , and just don't know how, is to find the string and copy 48 lines where the string would be in the 7th line.
I don't know if i can do it with... (10 Replies)
I'm trying to get a script to copy a url then put it in a different place in the file.
Example is currently the script goes to a site takes the urls on it and then puts them into an html file. Only thing is I want to make them into links.
So currently lynx goes to the page takes out the urls.... (6 Replies)
I am using the following command to email a tex file as an attachment-
cat mailtext.txt | elm -s "Subject" emailAddr
where content of mailtext.txt is -
"Body of email"
This will attach foo.txt with the email.
My problem is that the file foo.txt is ceated dynamically everytime with a... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to copy a string (myame@yahoo.com) from multiple files and save them to a new file.
This is what's I've gathered so far:
sed 's/string/g' file.txt > output.txt
Not sure how to run this on multiple files and extract just the email address found in each file.
Any help would be... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
How do I search first string & second string and copy all content between them from one file to another file?
Please help me..
Thanks In Advance.
Regards,
Pankaj (12 Replies)
Hi! just want to seek help on this:
i have a file wherein i want to find a string and copy the string after that and paste that other string to a new file.
ex:
TOTAL 123456
find "TOTAL" and copy "123456"
and paste "123456" to a new file
NOTE: there are many "TOTAL" strings on that... (12 Replies)
I tried awk for this, but failed <or my code is not correct? I dont know>. Can anyone help me on this?
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my working file looks like this:
<empty>
<empty>
<empty>
NAME :ABC AGE :15
GENDER... (6 Replies)
Hi guys
I've got two columns, PRODUCT and BRAND, the Brand column currently has the first word of each product, I've acheived this by using SED to copy the first word of the PRODUCT column, however you run into trouble when the brand has more than one word, i.e. 'Weight Watchers'.
Is there... (22 Replies)
i have a file1 with many lines. i have a script that will let me input a string. for example, APPLE. what i need to do is to copy all lines from file1 where i can find APPLE or any string that i specify and paste in on file 2
thanks in advance! (4 Replies)
I am new, really new to bash scripts.
I want to search an XML file for a certain string, say "1234567890"
Once found, I want to copy the entire contents from the previous instance of the string "Entity" to the next instance of "/Entity" to a txt file.
And then continue searching for the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jrfiol
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
cut
CUT(1) FSF 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
output only these bytes
-c, --characters=LIST
output only these characters
-d, --delimiter=DELIM
use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST
output only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified
-n with -b: don't split multibyte characters
-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. 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 Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
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 cut
should give you access to the complete manual.
cut (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 CUT(1)