Hi All,
Can the cut command have double character delimiter?
If yes, how can we use it.
if my data file contains :
apple || mango || grapes
i used
cut -f1 -d"||" filename
but got an error.
Plz help....
Thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi,
I've a situation where,
a=xxx.yyy.zzz.txt
EXTN=`echo $a | cut -d . -f2`
Using the above code it delimites and will return "yyy.zzz.txt" to EXTN. But i need to get only the extension "txt". so as per the above code it delimits in the first "." itself. Can anyone help how to do... (6 Replies)
Is there a way to use a word as a delimiter with cut? Or is there a way to use sed or awk with a word as a delimiter? I don't care which program I use for a delimiter I just want to use a word as a delimiter. (2 Replies)
I need to cut or otherwise get the 4th and 5th position output of
for i in `date +%H` ; do vnstat --dumpdb | grep "h;$i" ; done
example output is:
h;13;1310318701;443;93
I only need ";443;93" from any given run of "for i in `date +%H` ; do vnstat --dumpdb | grep "h;$i" ; done"
Thanks... (3 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 all,
suppose a string:
abc/def/ghi/jkl/mn.txt
and i want to get the file name without the path.
however, different files have different paths, therefore the number of delimiter is uncertain.
thanks so much! (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a number of strings like below:
//mnt/autocor/43°13'(33")W/
and i'm trying to get the numbers in this string, for example
431333
please help
thanks ahead (14 Replies)
There is a text file in my project named as "mom.txt" in which i want to have contents like..................
LSCRM(Application Name):
1: This is my first application.
2: Today we did shell scripting automation for this app.
3: It was really a good fun in doing so.
4: Really good.| (Here i... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
We have a requirement of picking nth position value by using cut command. value would be delimited by any symbols. We have to pass delimited value and postition to get the value in a string.
ex.
echo "A,B,C,D,E" |cut -d "," -f3
echo "A|B|C|D|E"|cut -d "|" -f2
Kindly frame the... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
cut
CUT(1) User Commands 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
select only these bytes
-c, --characters=LIST
select only these characters
-d, --delimiter=DELIM
use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST
select 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
--complement
complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields
-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. Selected input is written
in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once. 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.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report cut translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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 coreutils 'cut invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 CUT(1)