Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1483 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 February 2012 01:00:38 lynn wrote:
> strsid="S-1-5-21-2395500911-3560017633-4088823418-1134"
> pgrp=$(echo $strsid | cut -d "-" -f 8)
>
> $pgrp=1134
> I count 7 - delimiters
> I don't understand any more.
>
> What's the -f n saying? 'I go to the n-1'th delimiter and give you
> whatever is between that and the n'th delimiter'?
>
> Can I assume that the n'th delimiter could either be a delimiter or an
> end of line character? If so, what is the end of line delimiter?

-f means "field". S is the first field, 1 the second, 21 the third, and so on. 
1134 is the 8th field.

Anders
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