From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Reimer Subject: Re: string manipulating? Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 11:01:03 -0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E1864CF.31F52AB7@wa5rrh.org> References: <200212081837.LAA15273@cu.imt.net> <3DF44FE9.69FB5E4D@ihug.co.nz> <3E186154.D32669EB@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Chuck Gelm Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org how 'bout cut -d\( -f2 -jdr- Chuck Gelm wrote: > > Howdy, Y'all: > > Using 'grep' I've parsed some stdout to lines ending in > ...(123.45.67.89): > How can I either: > extract the last 17 characters > all characters after the first "(" > all characters from "(" to ")" > ? > > I tried > cut -c ".0123456789" filename.txt > but it returns > cut: invalid byte or field list. > :-| > > Regards, Chuck > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs