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Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX

Jerobadi — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:20:12 -0000

Apr 14 12:15 110414060000.ca_P_STARCOB_C...
Apr 14 10:56 ACH_WCF_CTRL.tbl
Apr 14 10:37 110413220000.ca_P_PR_HC_837...
Apr 14 08:14 dont_delete
Apr 12 11:48 trigger
Apr 11 07:40 Mail
Apr 01 11:36 directory_names.txt
Apr 01 11:34 presence_files.sh
Feb 28 06:08 monitor_va088.pl
Feb 28 06:07 monitor_l1l2.pl

i wanted to list the files for the dates that range between Apr 01 - Apr 12. could someone help??

Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX

Airvay — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:04:46 -0000

Did you know that if you press Alt while selecting with the mouse you can also select a block of text?

Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX

Itismike — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:20:41 -0000

cat infile | cut -f 2,4 > outfile

Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX

Khushbooshah — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:38:01 -0000

i have 5 columns in file...i want to display only 2,4 column in one single command. hw to do tht

Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:36:45 -0000

ps -ef|awk '{print $2}'

I use it like follows...

ps -ef|grep <filter string>|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -15

Cheers.

Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:38:10 -0000

I don't know if you've experienced consistency problems, but I have been using cut to get pid information from ps for a long time. For example 'ps -ef | cut -c 10-15' works fine for me.