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# 1  
Old 04-13-2007
no count of spaces in cut
i want to give numbers to cut without worrying about the spaces;

echo "12 345 6 78 9" | cut -c 1-9

echo "123 456 789" | cut -c 1-9

echo "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" | cut -c 1-9

the output of these three must be allways;


123456789


is that posible?
# 2  
Old 04-13-2007
sed 's/ //g' will remove spaces

could use a simpler tr command also
# 3  
Old 04-13-2007
thanks AWK
# 4  
Old 04-14-2007
Given your input:

Code:
$ echo "12 345 6 78 9
123 456 789
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"|awk '$1=$1' OFS=
123456789
123456789
123456789


If you need to substring (ex. the input given is not complete) use:

Code:
awk '$1=$1{print substr($0,1,9)}' OFS=

Use nawk on Solaris.
# 5  
Old 04-15-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tártaro
i want to give numbers to cut without worrying about the spaces;

echo "12 345 6 78 9" | cut -c 1-9

echo "123 456 789" | cut -c 1-9

echo "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" | cut -c 1-9

the output of these three must be allways;


123456789


is that posible?

Code:
x="12 345 6 78 9"
set -- $x
IFS=""
q="$*"
echo "$q"

# 6  
Old 04-16-2007
Code:
printf "%s" 12 345 6 78 9 | cut -c 1-9
printf "%s" 123 456 789 | cut -c 1-9
num="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"
printf "%s" $num | cut -c 1-9

# 7  
Old 04-17-2007
Hi,
you can use sed :
echo "12 34 567 89 " | sed 's/ *//g'
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