From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: string manipulating? Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:09:02 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E19FE7E.B7900706@gelm.net> References: <200212081837.LAA15273@cu.imt.net> <3DF44FE9.69FB5E4D@ihug.co.nz> <3E186154.D32669EB@gelm.net> <20030105172002.1499.qmail@escalade.vistahp.com> <20030105172330.1547.qmail@escalade.vistahp.com> <3E18D2B9.1E3E415C@gelm.net> <3E19A91A.7EEB7666@wa5rrh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Thanks, Jim & Brian: [info|man cut] LemmeC if I understand the '-f' fields=LIST The LIST is a list of enumerated fields, i.e. field1, field2, field3,... [ala: 1,2,3,4,5,6] each separated by the delimiter. So, if "(" is a delimiter, then the following strings: v Interesting ports on as1-216-68-15-180.fuse.net (216.68.15.180): Interesting ports on as1-216-68-15-184.fuse.net (216.68.15.184): ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is field 1 and this is field 2 :-) Chuck Jim Reimer wrote: > > Chuck Gelm wrote: > > > > Hi, Brian: > > > > Thanks. Your suggestion is the similar to Jim's with > > the arguments reversed. > > > > You and Jim have fed me. Thanks. > > Please teach me to fish. ;-) > > > > See if you can get your hands on a copy of "Unix in a Nutshell" > (System V edition) by O'Reilly. Doesn't always match up completely > with Linux, but I've found it to be an invaluable reference - and it > sure beats man pages. > > Covers all the standard Unix commands, KSH, CSH, Bourne shell, > and has sections on pattern matching, Emacs, vi, ex, sed, awk, > make, and other stuff I've never used. > > There's also "Linux in a Nutshell", but I've never seen a copy, > and from looking at the table of contents on O'Reilly's web > site, it looks light it may not cover commands the same way > the Unix/Sys V book does. > > -jdr- - 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