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# 1  
Old 05-27-2010
Include white spaces while using CUT command
Hi
I tried to extract 19 characters (default) enclosed with in tag from a file using cut command. If the characters comprises of double space, the cut command gives the output with a single spacing.

file 1
<name>Kumar Rajasekaran</name>

Code:
cut -c7-26 "file1"

the out put i received is
Code:
Kumar Rajasekaran

Expected output
Code:
Kumar   Rajasekaran

Please guide me.
Thanks
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-27-2010 at 05:24 AM.. Reason: Placing correct code tags
# 2  
Old 05-27-2010
Will this work for you?
Code:
$ echo '<name>Kumar    Rajasekaran</name>' | awk -F "<name>|</name>" '{print $2}'
Kumar    Rajasekaran
$

This will preserve the spaces.
# 3  
Old 05-27-2010
Well, I tried with cut and it reserves the space too.Smilie
And try with sed too..

Code:
echo "<name>Kumar    Rajasekaran</name>" | sed 's/<name>\(.*\)<\/name>/\1/'

# 4  
Old 05-27-2010
Thanks,

Please have a look on my code. Please let me know how to use awk command as mentioned above.

source file input
name>Rajesh vadakar IIT Chennai </name>

Expected output
Rajesh vadakar IIT Chennai

Code:
c_line="/apps/source.txt"
targetfile="result.txt"
var1=0
while read c_line
do
var1=`grep -c "IIT   Chennai" $c_line`
echo $var1 >> $targetfile
if [ $var1 -ge 1 ]
then
val=`cut -c6-37 $c_line`
echo $var >> $targetfile

fi
done<${c_line}

Please update me as earliest.
Thanks

---------- Post updated at 02:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:27 PM ----------

my above code is also not working. Please correct my mistake.
# 5  
Old 05-27-2010
replace
Code:
val=`cut -c6-37 $c_line`

with

Code:
val=`echo $$c_line | cut -c6-37 `


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
# 6  
Old 05-27-2010
Hi,

Still its not working. It is considering newspace as blank line. so the above name tag value is spiltted in to differents columns.

pleasre review my code and correct me
# 7  
Old 05-27-2010
Had an extra $ in my code above

Code:
val=`echo $c_line | cut -c6-37 `
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