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Name: charles_cp Date: November 9, 2003 at 08:13:59 Pacific OS: AIX CPU/Ram: 900
Comment:
I have a text file like this: A Tom Wong B Mary Chan C Peter Wu D Steven Cheung
How to use the "cut" command to display the following: A Tom Wong B C Peter Wu D Steven Cheung
Name: Shaun Date: November 9, 2003 at 13:19:58 Pacific
Reply:
Not sure cut is what you want. That's usually used to extract text. You may want to loop through the file one line at a time and break eack line into fields, then process accordimgly. What would be the general purpose of your script?
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Response Number 2
Name: Keith Date: November 11, 2003 at 17:32:48 Pacific
Reply:
'cut' is used to cut all fields, conditionals are better handled with awk, perl, sed, etc.
If you had some file "ick" that had the above, you could execute the following:
awk '!/Mary/ { print } /Mary/ {print $1}' ick2
I'd avoid looping at all cost as it is expensive. Like all things in UNIX, there are 50 ways to do it, 5 of which are optimum. Cheers,
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