Pádraig, Stephane - thanks a lot for your help and quick response!
Tomek
2015-06-29 17:25:11 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
> > $ printf '%s\n' a:b c d:e | paste -d: - /dev/null | cut -d: -f2
> > b
> >
> > e
>
> Good point. Or to better support field ranges:
>
> $ printf '%s\n' a:b c d:e | sed 's/^[^:]*$/&:/' | cut -d: -f2-
> b
>
> e
[...]
Maybe better as:
$ printf '
On 29/06/15 16:54, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-06-29 16:31:00 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
> [...]
>>> When there is only one column and we go beyond 1 with the -f option, the
>>> output remains the first column
>>>
>>> $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f1
>>> test1
>>> $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f2
>>> t
2015-06-29 16:31:00 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
> > When there is only one column and we go beyond 1 with the -f option, the
> > output remains the first column
> >
> > $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f1
> > test1
> > $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f2
> > test1
> > $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f3
> > tes
Hi Pádraig,
Oh, I see - thanks for letting me know.
Kind regards,
Tomek
> On 29 Jun 2015, at 16:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
> tag 20928 notabug
> close 20928
> stop
>
> On 29/06/15 09:18, Kuchta, Tomasz wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I’m not sure if this is a bug - I just wanted to let you know.
>> T
tag 20928 notabug
close 20928
stop
On 29/06/15 09:18, Kuchta, Tomasz wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I’m not sure if this is a bug - I just wanted to let you know.
> Thanks,
> Tomek
>
> ——
>
> When there is more than one column and we go beyond the number of columns
> with the -f option, the output is emp
Hello.
I’m not sure if this is a bug - I just wanted to let you know.
Thanks,
Tomek
——
When there is more than one column and we go beyond the number of columns with
the -f option, the output is empty
$ echo "test1 test2" | cut -d' ' -f1
test1
$ echo "test1 test2" | cut -d' ' -f2
test2
$ echo
