Re: cut using -d """ -- can't pipe output. (textutils 2.1 under Win32.)

[Mike Paulsen]

John Lowe wrote:
> In message <41E3E0F6.40209@charter.net>, Mike Paulsen 
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> > I'd like to learn what I'm doing wrong, but I'm not above using sed to 
> > replace the quotes with some other character if need be. 

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> So as long as * doesn't appear in your file you could try:
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> cat temp.txt | sed -e "s/""/*/g" | cut -s -f2 -d "*" | grep 1
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> Sorry I couldn't produce a more elegant solution to the original problem!

Your example above works. Thanks again for the help.

-- Mike.