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Hi all,

I am desperately seeking help from you guys, on "cut -f" command.

actually i want to cut a line into different parts and align column wise in the output

so i use the command cut -f1,3,5 <filename>

so in this case, my output should be first column<tab>third column<tab>fifth column

i tried this command but didnt work, can u help me out pls.

Thanks
Vasikaran

Show a sample of how your input would look like.

vino

see , if my file contains the data like

I am a nice guy working for a company
U r a nice person working on my problem

if is give command like cut -f1,3,5,7 <file name >

the output shd be

I a guy for
U a person on

This is shd be my ouput, so the above command is not working, so how do i go abt it

Here's the cut

Code:

 cut -d" " -f1,3,5,7 < input.txt

vino

hope this helps

cut -f1,3,5,7 -d" " <filename>

Hi Vino, Madan

Thank you so much, it is working, ...

very happy and great support ...

thanks a ton..