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frenchn00b

04-19-2009 09:10 AM

How use CUT with several chars delimiter (not a single char) ?

Hello

myfile.txt contains:

Code:

string1 = stri/*-sdf:/()()/*'##+ng2

string1 = stri/*-sdf:/()()/*'##+ng2

I would like to cut as if:

Code:

cat myfile.txt | cut -d" : " -f1

but -d should be a single char.

Is tehre any solutiosn? (no perl)

frenchn00b

04-19-2009 09:12 AM

if found for the moment, this solution only:

Code:

cat myfile.txt | awk -F" : " '{print $1; print $2}'

bigearsbilly

04-19-2009 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frenchn00b (Post 3514078)

Is there any solutiosn? (no perl)

no.
cut takes a single char.

ta0kira

04-20-2009 03:37 AM

Try using tr 'chars' 'char' to preprocess, e.g.

Code:

echo 'one,two three|target' | tr ',|' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f4

This might not be what you mean; I can't tell. Maybe you mean a sequence is the delimiter?

Code:

echo 'one = target' | sed 's/ = /@/g' | cut -d'@' -f2

Kevin Barry

gnashley

04-20-2009 04:31 AM

Code:

#!/bin/bash



SEP=' : '

echo SEP="'$SEP'"

while read line ; do

        echo right-of-first=${line#*$SEP}

        echo right-of-last=${line##*$SEP}

        echo left-of-first=${line%%$SEP*}

        echo left-of-last=${line%$SEP*}

        echo

done <myfile.txt

ghostdog74

04-20-2009 04:44 AM

maybe i am blind, but where in your data do you have " : " delimeter?

kike_coello

04-22-2009 10:11 PM

True that, you only have:
"f:/"

not :
"f : /"

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