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cut using -d """ -- can't pipe output. (textutils 2.1 under Win32.)


From: Mike Paulsen
Subject: cut using -d """ -- can't pipe output. (textutils 2.1 under Win32.)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:27:25 -0600
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201)

Hello,

I'm having problems with cut (textutils 2.1 under Win32.)
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

I am unable to pipe or redirect the output when I specify the delimiter as a double quote (-d """).

>cat temp.txt
2.0.0.127.blah blah blah "This is the text I want to end up with1"
2.0.0.127.blah blah blah "This is the text I want to end up with2"

>cat temp.txt | cut -f2 -d """
This is the text I want to end up with1
This is the text I want to end up with2

>cat temp.txt | cut -f2 -d """ | grep 1
cut: |: Invalid argument
cut: grep: No such file or directory
cut: 1: No such file or directory

>cat temp.txt | cut -f2 -d """ > temp2.txt
cut: >: Invalid argument

Cut doesn't have a problem with " " in place of """:
>cat temp.txt | cut -f1-10 -d " " | grep blah
2.0.0.127.blah blah blah "This is the text I want to
2.0.0.127.blah blah blah "This is the text I want to

>cut --version
cut (textutils) 2.1
Written by David Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Any insights appreciated.

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