Please follow up to the list and not to me privately unless it is personal. I forwarded your message back to the list and am following up to it now. It is a team effort.
Bill Cecchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-07 13:48:03 -0800]: > > There is the crux of my problem. I used the cut command as you show below, > on a text file and got the following results. > > C:\bill\bill\data>cut -d ` ` -f 2 test_spaces.txt > cut: `: No such file or directory You are apparently using the MS-Windows COMMAND.COM program as your shell. I was not expecting that! I believe under ms-windows you would need to use only double-quotes such as cut -d " " in order for the command.com to work with it. Not sure. I don't do windows. > On our IBM-AIX Unix servers I use the exact same file and basically the > same command, but get what I need:: > > /wcecchin: cut -d ' ' -f2 test_spaces.txt UNIX and GNU systems use more advanced command shells, which are about 25 years old now (only a little baiting), and have different quoting syntax. If you are using MS-Windows then you need to use MS-Windows syntax. > So, I figured it must be some kind of 'bug' in the Windows 2000 > version of GNU Utilities. I do thank you for your response and > helping me work this out. Thank you. SmileS Nope. Unlikely to be a bug. It is a difference in the quoting of your MS-Windows system command.com command shell that you are using. You have to use the quoting syntax for your shell. You might want to look into the Cygwin tools which provide a port of the GNU Project software to MS-Windows. There you would get a real bash shell which in my not so humble opinion would be an improvement. But note that you are still running MS-Windows even with the Cygwin tools installed and therefore you can only expect so much. http://www.cygwin.com Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
