[CentOS] cut command on centos

Fri Jan 12 19:23:32 UTC 2007
Diaa Radwan <diaaradwan at gmail.com>

Jerry Geis wrote:
> How do I make the delimiter for cut be a single character with hex value
> 1e?
> 
> I tried in a script file:
> 
> DELIMITER='\x1e'
> DD=`echo $DATA | cut -f 1 --delimiter $DELIMITER`
use sed to substitute $DELIMITER to single character.

DD=`echo $DATA | sed -e "s/$DELIMITER/\:/g" | cut  -f 1 -d\:

> 
> and it tells me:
> cut: the delimiter must be a single character
> 
> Jerry
> 
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Diaa Radwan,RHCE


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