Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:48, Jerry Geis <geisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file,
drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file.
newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-`
What you want is "cut -c 19-" (-c as in characters) and not "cut -f
19-" (-f as in fields).
echo $newline >> output.txt
This will also remove the spacing. You should at least use echo
"$newline" >>output.txt, but in any case it's silly as you can just:
cut -c 19- <test.txt >output.txt
Or sed -e 's/^...................//' <text.txt >output.txt
which might be a nicer starting point if you want to make other changes
although it won't change a line with less than 19 characters. If you'd
want that, 's/^.\{1,19\}//' should do it.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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