Shell Programming and Scripting

i am trying cut -f1 jam2.txt from command prompt it is working fine it is extracting 1 st column but when i am putting the line in script
it is saying

cut: invalid character in range

any guess ??

yes now problem is coming with field.which we are using to cut f"value".
${pos[$k]}.
check the line below and compare in your script did you miss something.

Code:

cut -f${pos[$k]} jam2.txt>temp/tempjam${k}

cut -f${pos[$k]} jam2.txt >temp/tempjam${k}

missed nothing .

command working fine with comand prompt but giving error when using through shell script
invalid range//

need to check what is going in array.check how many times the error message is coming.is it generating any tempjam files?


k=0
while [ $k -lt $maxcol ]
do
echo "value at index $k is ${pos[$k]}"
#cut -d ' ' -f${pos[$k]} jam2.txt>temp/tempjam${k}
k=`expr $k + 1`
done

Dhruv !! my boss . I have no word to express my praise for you !
thanks a lot and thanks for every thing you have done for me.
It work for me finaly!

cheers!

Good to know that it worked.can you share with us what was causing problem and what you did to resolve it?

I don't find what was the problem ...as i was running the same thing that you mention in the cut -f.. every time.

probably the datafile was the culprit ! could be some spacing problem i don't know.
I have deleted the data file and recreated some test file with tab delimited and then run . it worked then !

Great man ! u made life easier and i have learn lot from you.
thanks again.