Re: string manipulating?

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Hi, Jim:

 Thanks, that works great.
Please explain:

\( is the left parenthesis escaped (?)

'-f' is 'output only these fields'
 what does the '2' of '-f2' do?

chuck

Jim Reimer wrote:
> 
> 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
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