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FInger and cut (sounds painful doesn't it)
Hi there you guys ;-) Im trying to get the first 3 fields from a finger -s command I've tried using cut but that doesn't work. who |cut -d" " -f1|xargs finger -s|cut -d" " -f1,2,3 The output of finger is seperated with multiple spaces. Do I used IFS again? How do I say my delimiter is junk...- GirlInTrouble
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Using a select loop with input from the 'file' command
Hi everyone My head is getting to know the brick wall rather well by now. My problem is all do to do with passing a list of files using the file command into a select loop. Now I can make the file command give me what I think works because I hard coded it into 2nd script, it doesn’t look pretty...- GirlInTrouble
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
