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Old 04-19-2009, 07:54 AM   #1
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How use CUT -d 'delimiter' is delimiter is a TAB?

How use CUT -d 'delimiter' is delimiter is a TAB?


Any ideas. Google is not helping much
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Old 04-19-2009, 07:56 AM   #2
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How use CUT -d 'delimiter' is delimiter is a TAB?


Any ideas. Google is not helping much
Best regards

MAN CUT is better and cuter than google cut.

Code:
cat  myfile  | cut  -f1 -s
take the first string
Code:
cat  myfile  | cut  -f2 -s
take the second string


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Old 04-19-2009, 10:18 AM   #3
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Just for the next search user.
1) that solution correctly states that TAB is default delimiter for cut.
2) "cut -f1 -s myfile" works on its own, so cat invocation is redundant
3)
Code:
cut -f1 -d\<TAB>
and
Code:
cut -f1 -d"<TAB>"
are useful to know - just as examples of shell escaping
 
Old 04-19-2009, 11:19 AM   #4
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you can also use awk.
 
Old 01-31-2010, 02:03 AM   #5
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press "<CTR> v" then the "<TAB>" key

cut -d "<CTR>v <TAB>"
 
Old 02-01-2010, 06:26 PM   #6
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press "<CTR> v" then the "<TAB>" key

cut -d "<CTR>v <TAB>"

Oh thanks that a cool trick too.
By the way if one type :
Code:
 ps aux  | cut  -f1 -s
it doesnt output
 
Old 02-01-2010, 09:07 PM   #7
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That's because word splitting makes the tab just ordinary whitespace to delimit parameters with. If you're really using Bash and not POSIX sh, then use $'\t' and Parameter Expansions. Or even play with IFS and use read:
Code:
IFS="." read h1 h2 h3 h4 <<< "127.0.0.1"
 
Old 02-01-2010, 09:25 PM   #8
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Depending on the input format, sometimes using "tr -s ' '" will sqeeze extra spaces to a single space letting cut or awk work properly with a space as the delimiter.

example:

ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f1,8-
 
Old 03-30-2010, 07:25 AM   #9
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I use the awk
grep "833" session_20100321.log | awk '{ FS = "\t" ; printf(" %s %s\n", $5,$6); }'
 
Old 03-30-2010, 08:44 AM   #10
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If your looking to use with ps then:

Code:
ps aux | awk '{ print $1}'
works
 
Old 10-08-2013, 01:49 AM   #11
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use this
cut -d$'\t'
 
Old 10-08-2013, 03:00 AM   #12
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When not in bash, use printf:

Code:
TAB=$(printf '\t')
echo "here  is a $TAB" | od -tx1
 
Old 11-06-2013, 03:17 AM   #13
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Quote:
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If your looking to use with ps then:

Code:
ps aux | awk '{ print $1}'
works
Thanks man, don't know why AWK slips my mind always!
 
  


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