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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Diaa Radwan,RHCE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070112/d182492e/attachment-0005.sig>