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Old 09-07-2011
Cutting fields from lines with multiple spaces
Please see the following code, between "status" and "OK" exists many spaces, I want to get
Code:
status                        OK

. how to ignore multi spaces? If tab exists in the spaces, how to ignore it ?
Is there other commands can replace cut?
Code:
[river@localhost CLI008003]$ echo 'drv status                        OK'| cut -d " " -f 2-3
status 
[river@localhost CLI008003]$ echo 'drv status                        OK'| cut -d " " -f 2-
status                        OK
[river@localhost CLI008003]$ echo 'drv status                        OK'| cut -d " " -f 3

[river@localhost CLI008003]$

# 2  
Old 09-07-2011
You can't do it with cut, but awk is a perfect tool for it:
Code:
awk '{print $2, $3}'

# 3  
Old 09-07-2011
However, awk can not print the content between $2 and $3.
# 4  
Old 09-07-2011
Quote:
. how to ignore multi spaces? If tab exists in the spaces, how to ignore it ?
Smilie You asked about ignoring and not about preserving spaces and tabs.
Use sed.
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