[PLUG] Specifying white space as delimiter for 'cut'
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Nov 7 16:29:15 UTC 2016
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> cut can use other delimiters besides spaces. And can, helpful in this
> case, choose arbitrary byte offsets:
> michael at bivy /srv/photo/365_2012 % ls -l | head | cut -b1-10,53-
> The man page for cut lists "-b, --bytes=LIST" as the first described option.
> man is your friend.
Michael,
I tried -c for characters and forgot that that's not synonymous with
bytes.
Thanks,
Rich
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