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Subject: Re: stability of column-widths in output from df, route etc
From: walter harms <wharms () bfs ! de>
Date: 2010-11-26 14:32:42
Message-ID: 4CEFC50A.4020509 () bfs ! de
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Am 26.11.2010 13:06, schrieb Joakim Tjernlund:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, David Collier
>> <from_busybox_maillist@dexdyne.com> wrote:
>>> I have some scripts which manipulate the output of route, and df, by
>>> using cut -c8-12 or similar to extract the info I want.
>>>
>>> How risky is this - what are the chances of someone making a column wider
>>> or narrower in a future issue of busybox?
>>>
>>> Is there a better technique?
>>
>> Trim all whitespace to single spaces (sed 's/ */ /g'),
>> then separate fields on the space char.
>
> Yes, although it should probably be sed 's/ \+/ /g'
>
just because i am fan of "tr"
tr -s " "
re,
wh
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