Cut Command

TO GET VALUES BASED ON DELIMITER USING CUT COMMAND

cut -d ":" -f 1-1 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

Delimiter is : (colon)

Position is 1 (one) through 1

This will get the data before first delimiter in File Tfr3.txt

Example:

Source:

Sales:123123:Aravind:1234

Sales:123124:Ram:1235

Sales:123125:Shankar:1236

Sales:123126:Ravi:1237

Sales:123127:Vinodh:1238

Sales:123128:Senthil:1239

Sales:123129:Saravana:1240

Output:

Sales

Sales

Sales

Sales

Sales

Sales

Sales

If the command is

cut -d ":" -f 2-2 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

then we will get value in second delimiter

Output:

123123

123124

123125

123126

123127

123128

123129

If the command is

cut -d ":" -f 1-2 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

Then we will get output including first and second delimiter ranging (1-2) and Output will be

Sales:123123

Sales:123124

Sales:123125

Sales:123126

Sales:123127

Sales:123128

Sales:123129

If the command is

cut -d ":" -f 1-3 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

Sales:123123:Aravind

Sales:123124:Ram

Sales:123125:Shankar

Sales:123126:Ravi

Sales:123127:Vinodh

Sales:123128:Senthil

Sales:123129:Saravana

CUT command using other delimiters

cut -d "/" -f 2-2 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

cut -d "(" -f 1-1 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

cut -d ")" -f 3-3 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

cut -d ";" -f 1-1 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

cut -d "'" -f 1-1 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

CUT command for Substring action

cut –c1-10 Tfr3.txt > T10.txt

This will cut the characters from position 1 to 10.