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egrep and cut

i want to cut some value from the result of egrep. can i pass the result of egrep to cut without passing it to a file like -

chkname=`cut -f1 egrep -i "Y" company.txt`
echo chkname

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sure you can

chkname=`egrep -i "Y" company.txt | cut -c2-10`

hope that helps

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