Discussion on Cut #5 Challenge

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2 years ago+ 2 comments

echo $line | cut -f1-3

echo "$line" | cut -f1-3

Why just the second one works? Which changes the double quotes causes?

6 years ago+ 2 comments

cut -d $'\t' -f1-3 worked for me. -d only takes only one character so cut -d ' ' -f1-3 wouldn't work. also cut -d "\t" -f1-3 wouldn't work.

2 years ago+ 5 comments

#!/usr/bin/env bash

IFS=""
while read line; do
  echo -e "$line" | cut -f -3
done

5 years ago+ 5 comments

I think this challenge is broken, the input doesn't seem to be tab seperated. EDIT: Seems to be working now

2 years ago+ 3 comments

This works

#!/bin/bash
while read s
do
    echo "$s" | cut -f1-3
done