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Old 01-18-2012, 02:06 AM   #1
happyrobo
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need help about 'cut'

Hello there, I'm new in shell script and I've got some problems with these line:

Code:
uptime | cut -d " " -f 10-12
and

Code:
free -m | cut -d " " -f 20-22
so anyone can help me what does the 'cut' mean according to these script.

Thanks for read.
 
Old 01-18-2012, 02:34 AM   #2
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as per the manpage, it means show the 10th to 12th fields of the output from uptime, where the field delimiter is a space.
 
  


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