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Basic usage question involving "cut"
From: |
Linda Walsh |
Subject: |
Basic usage question involving "cut" |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:27:10 -0700 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) |
Don't know if this is the appropriate place for this, but if it
isn't possible, I could "suggest" that it might be considered a
bug or at least a "design deficiency". :-)
Something that's always bothered me about "cut". It seems it has
at least two ways to define fields, that I'm aware of: defining
by character position and defining by a delimiter.
What I don't know how to do is how to select a "whitespace"
delimited field. It's one of the more common field delimiters I
run into. The easiest, but rather inefficient methods is to
pipe the input into a shell-based "while read field1, field2..."
loop, but it sure would make sense if there was an option
to "cut" to handle white-space delimited fields.
Is there an option to "cut" that I don't know about, or am I
looking in the wrong place for this type of functionality,
or is this a feature "deficit", in "cut", that needs remedying?
Thanks,
Linda
- Basic usage question involving "cut",
Linda Walsh <=