Is there any way to specify a field delimiter for more spaces with the cut command? (like ” “+) ? For example: In the following string, I like to reach value ‘3744’, what field delimiter I should say? $ps axu | grep jboss jboss 2574 0.0 0.0 3744 1092 ? S Aug17 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/java/jboss/bin/run.sh … Read more
What’s wrong with the following code? name=”$filename | cut -f1 -d”.” As is, I get the literal string $filename | cut -f1 -d’.’, but if I remove the quotes I don’t get anything. Meanwhile, typing “test.exe” | cut -f1 -d’.’ in a shell gives me the output I want, test. I already know $filename has … Read more
I am working with two files, and I need to copy a few lines from one file and paste into another file. I know how to copy (yy) and paste (p) in the same file. But that doesn’t work for different files. How is this done? Also, is there a way to cut-paste? I have … Read more
I’m trying to extract a certain (the fourth) field from the column-based, ‘space’-adjusted text stream. I’m trying to use the cut command in the following manner: cat text.txt | cut -d ” ” -f 4 Unfortunately, cut doesn’t treat several spaces as one delimiter. I could have piped through awk awk ‘{ printf $4; }’ … Read more
Suppose I have the string 1:2:3:4:5 and I want to get its last field (5 in this case). How do I do that using Bash? I tried cut, but I don’t know how to specify the last field with -f. 17 Answers 17
I want to use space as a delimiter with the cut command. What syntax can I use for this? 8 Answers 8
Without using sed or awk, only cut, how do I get the last field when the number of fields are unknown or change with every line? 12 Answers 12
