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Old 05-25-2005, 10:34 AM   #1
chipmanchu
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Pass a variable as an agruement for cut


I want to pass a variable as an arguement in a cut statement.
Here is basically what I want to do

Opt=3
Optlist="banana apple orange grape"

optsel=`echo $Optlist | cut -d " " -f $Opt`


I want to cut the third field, or what ever Opt is set to at the time, from optsel.
The problem is putting $Opt after -f doesn't work nor does "$Opt", '$Opt'

Can anyone help me.
 
Old 05-25-2005, 11:39 AM   #2
gerrit_daniels
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Switch the -f and -d options and it does work.

Code:
optsel=`echo $Optlist | cut -f $Opt -d " "`
Hope this helps
 
  


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