tag 22886 + notabug close 22886 thanks Your email to the bug reporting address opens a bug ticket automatically. Since you are not reporting a bug but are simply asking for scripting help I will go ahead and close the ticket.
Kannan E1 wrote: > We are facing issue to get output of first column of first row. To get the first row you could use head. head -n1 To get the first column you could use awk. awk '{print$1}' To do both you could do this: ... | head -n1 | awk '{print$1}' > hscroot@vahmc032:~> viosvrcmd -m Server-XXXXXXX -p va10XXX-VIOS2 -c "lsmap > -all -npiv" | grep -i va10XXX Using your example you could do this to get the first column of the first row. viosvrcmd -m Server-XXXXXXX -p va10XXX-VIOS2 -c "lsmap -all -npiv" | head -n1 | awk '{print$1}' Awk is powerful enough to do both of those and much more. NR is the Number of Records. If the NR (Number of Records) is equal to 1 then that is the first line. The first line being the first row testing for NR==1 is a pattern match that matches the first line only. Then a small optimization is to exit immediately so as not to read any of the rest of the input. viosvrcmd -m Server-XXXXXXX -p va10XXX-VIOS2 -c "lsmap -all -npiv" | awk 'NR==1{print$1;exit}' > Please guide us to get only vfchostX column alone.Thanks... > > hscroot@vahmc032:~> viosvrcmd -m Server-XXXXXXX -p va10XXX-VIOS2 -c "lsmap > -all -npiv" | grep -i va10XXX > vfchost46 U9117.MMC.10E45C6-V2-C180 15 va10XXXXX AIX > > Note: awk '{print $1}' is not working. These types of shell scripting questions are probably better sent to the help-gnu-ut...@gnu.org discussion mailing list. Email there won't open a bug ticket. That is generally the best place for random scripting questions using the utilities. Since this ticket has already been started please continue the conversation here for this discussion. Please keep 22...@debbugs.gnu.org in the recipient list for this topic. Bob