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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cut the third column from a file Post 94274 by isingh786 on Wednesday 28th of December 2005 04:45:40 PM
Old 12-28-2005
cut the third column from a file
I have a text file which has the following data. There can be more lines in the file. But, I am only interested in these two lines which has ~ZZ~VISTN and ~ZZ~F159B segments.

ISA~00~ ~00~ ~ZZ~VISTN ~ZZ~U1CAD ~051227~183
7~U~00200~000011258~0~P~<

ISA~00~ ~00~ ~ZZ~F159B ~ZZ~U1CAD ~051227~191
3~U~00200~000011467~0~P~<

I am to get this third column from the file and store it in some variable and then compare if it is "~ZZ~VISTN" it is passed otherwise it is fail.

In oder to get the third column, I am using the cut command along with grep but it does not seems to be working and it is returning the whole line.

grep -n ~ZZ~ success.lst | cut -f3 > pass.txt.

The desired result is "~ZZ~VISTN and ~ZZ~F159B but it is returning the whole data. Maybe I am missing something here. Please advise.

Regards,
Inder
 

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colrm

COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME

     colrm -- remove columns from a file

SYNOPSIS

     colrm [start [stop]]

DESCRIPTION

     The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file.  A column is defined as a single character in a line.  Input is read
     from the standard input.  Output is written to the standard output.

     If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written.  If both start and stop columns are spec-
     ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written.  Column numbering starts with one, not
     zero.

     Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight.  Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.

ENVIRONMENT

     The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)

HISTORY

     The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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