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Old 03-15-2010
Thanks People.

Much appreciated!!

---------- Post updated at 11:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:16 AM ----------

For anyone else who may want to use the below script to achieve what I desired.


Quote:
Originally Posted by rekha_sri
Using bash script you can get the required output in simple way.

Code:
field1="$field1 `cut -d' ' -f 1 file`"
field2="$field2 `cut -d' ' -f 2 file`"
echo $field1
echo $field2

It works when I change the second line to :-

field2="$field2 `cut -d' ' -f 3 file`"
# 9  
Old 03-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by rekha_sri
Using bash script you can get the required output in simple way.

Code:
field1="$field1 `cut -d' ' -f 1 file`"
field2="$field2 `cut -d' ' -f 2 file`"
echo $field1
echo $field2

You can whittle that down further still:
Code:
echo $(cut -d' ' -f1 data)
echo $(cut -d' ' -f2 data)

Cheers,
Alister
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