Howdy

I have a script that works well with retreiving weather information from a webpage. If then tailors it to how I want it then spits it out as email.

I have the script working under CentOS, however I have just converted it over to Debian

The script works all the way up until it is required to "cut" information obtained and place it into a file for editing.

************************* FROM SCRIPT ******************

echo "Location supplied = "$place
echo "------------------------------------"
interest=0
while read line; do # loop to step through pages
pagenumber=`echo $line | cut -b 0-8`
pagename=`echo $line | cut -b 11-`
echo "Scanning -----> "$pagenumber" <----- "
**************************************************************

It gets to the "cut" section and spits out"

cut: fields and positions are numbers from 1
Try `cut --help' for more information

I am sure there is a simple answer for this, however I am puzzled as to why it falters on this "cut" command - when it was working so well under CentOS

Many thanks for reading this.

Hi

This line is buggy:

That cut command take a range of bytes, 1 meaning the first byte. So using 0 here is incorrect.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/cut

It doesn't say what should happen if the numbers are incorrect. My guess is that some other versions of cut simply ignores it, and uses 1 instead, while others give an error message.

Try changing the line to this:

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Thanks for the short and swift answer! Funny how some of these things you keep looking at and it is staring you right in the face!

Appreciated