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# 1  
Old 07-30-2009
Delete part of string
This command:

Code:
du -s /Applications/TextMate.app

Returns an output like this:

Code:
65792	/Applications/TextMate.app

I need to delete the space and the file path in the output leaving just the number.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 07-30-2009
you can use cut or awk or sed etc etc...
Code:
du -s /Applications/TextMate.app|awk '{print $1}'

# 3  
Old 07-30-2009
You could also do

Code:
du - s /Applications/TextMate.app | cut -f1

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