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Old 03-01-2006
need urgent help in cut command

hello

i need help in cut command .. i want to cut the column number 1 - 4 coulmn from my data file . all feilds are tabe delimeted .

i am doing this way but getting error

the data is generated after that i am opening that file in

cat testdata.log | cut - d" " -f 1,2,3 > testdata.log

I am facing the problem it delets all data from file pls help me
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Old 03-01-2006
Redirect your output to some other file rather than the input file.
And it will start working


Gaurav
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Old 03-01-2006
thaks it is working
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