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# 8  
Old 12-20-2010
none of the options are giving desired result
# 9  
Old 12-20-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deepak Dutt
none of the options are giving desired result
My Post#7 should work. In that I m just merging all lines by |(pipe) delimiter and than printing 3rd column.
Code:
$ cat input
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
$ xargs -d"|" < input
line1|line2|line3|line4|line5
$ xargs -d"|" < input | cut -d"|" -f3
line3

To get further idea on your problem, please post sample input data and desired output data.
R0H0N
# 10  
Old 12-20-2010
This does the job:
Code:
sed -n 3p inputfile

Is there another reason you want to stick with cut?




Robin,
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
# 11  
Old 12-20-2010
Quote:
I tried this command in all three shells TCSH BASH and KSH
As I am sure you know already, this whole exercise with "cut" is a complete waste of time.
# 12  
Old 12-20-2010
Code:
$ cat input
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
 
$ cut -d'
' -f 3 input
line3

# 13  
Old 12-21-2010
Exactly, Ygor's suggestion seems to be working well.

bash/ksh93:
Code:
$ cut -d$'\n' -f3 infile
this is 3rd line

Perhaps there is something fishy with the OP's input file?
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