Re: cut(1) and space delimiters

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-19 22:49, der.hans wrote:
> Am 19. Mär, 2010 schwätzte Ron Johnson so:
>
> > Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem 
> > doesn't work...
> >
> > WORKS:
> > $ service="http mail ssh"
> > $ echo $service | cut -d\  -f2
> > mail
> > $ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2
> > mail
> > dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall$ | awk '{print $1}'
> >
> >
> > DOES NOT WORK:
> > $ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall$ | cut -d' ' -f1
> > $ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall$ | cut -d\  -f1
> >
> >
> > Is the problem that there's so *much* whitespace in the dpkg listing?
>
> dpkg is outputting tabs.
>
> Cut uses a tab as the default delimiter :).

Argh, that sneaky SOB!!!

Thanks.

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