On 07/06/2018 11:46 AM, Michael Wagner wrote:
On Jul 06, 2018 um 11:17:56, Richard Owlett wrote:Subject line is poorly phrased. While working on a problem {solved by a different approach} I had: ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ | cut -f 10,12 -d ' ' data.txt I would then manually edit data.txt by replacing the space character between the two fields with a tab.I suspect I should be able to do: ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ | cut -f 10,12 -d ' ' | *something* > prettydata.txt I searched for examples/tutorials found that it should be conceptually possible. However the examples I found were processing streams I didn't understand.Hello Richard, one way is to do it with sed: ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/|cut -f 10,12 -d ' '|sed 's/ /\t/g'>prettydata.txt Hth Michael
Thank you. https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html makes interesting reading.
