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Asked: 2021-12-12T05:04:53+00:00 In:

Cut a Fixed Width In The File

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Hi,

I am below cut command:

cat test.txt | cut -c 1-320 > test_final.txt

This will cut till 320 width of each line. But i am not able to cut, if a line include an special characters(such as Ü,ç,ò,etc).

Please Help on this

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Umar

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      I didn’t test this, but in your shell, try setting noglob

      #!/bin/ksh

      set noglob

      cat test.txt | cut -c 1-320 > test_final.txt

      The Korn shell in cygwin cuts the characters without any problems.

      If those characters you posted are out of your data file, then you have a NULL character in your string. You’ll need to convert them to a space in order to solve your problem.

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