cut help

[M.Thomas]

i have the following lines from lpstat in a file i just need the name and ip or full name

remote to: ak01 on ak01.dsa.abc.com
remote to: HR51 on HR51

example

just need like this

ak01 ak01.dsa.abc.com

Please help

thomas

[Paul Sperry]

more filename | awk '{print $3 $5}' > newfilename

[M.Thomas]

this does not print the space in between which is required

thomas

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Thomas:

Directly (match and extract):

# lpstat -v|awk '/remote to:/ {print $3,$5}'

Regards!

...JRF...

[TwoProc · Accepted solution]

re: doesn't print the space:

more filename | awk '{print $3 " " $5}' > newfilename

That will fix it.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
as you asked for "cut help":
cut -d' ' -f3,5 filename