[SGVLUG] Shell fun: cutting the last field of a record...

[John E. Kreznar]

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"Emerson, Tom" <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> writes:

> I've got a process that is extracting the name as follows:

>    for REC in `cat worklist`
>    do
>       fname=`echo $REC | cut -f6 -d"|"`
>       <does something thaqt creates the file "$fname">
>    done

> Say for instance the file "worklist" looks like this:

>    rec1|field2|field3|field4|field5|filea
>    rec2|field2|field3|field4|field5|fileb
>    rec3|field2|field3|field4|field5|filec^M  (file has an embedded
> carraige return at the end)

> how can I eliminate that trailing "/r" ?

Maybe selectively delete all CRs:

       fname=`echo $REC | tr -d '\015' | cut -f6 -d"|"`

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