[ACCEPTED]-Using cut with unprintable delimiters-command-line
If you're using Bash,
cut -d $'\001' ...
works (see Bash Reference Manual # 3.1.2.4 ANSI-C Quoting).
Other 6 (more portable) options,
cut -d `echo -e '\001'` ...
FS=`echo -e '\001'`
cut -d $FS ...
or inserting the 5 control character directly using ^V as mentioned 4 by Alnitak and etlerant -- on the shell 3 command line, and in editors such as vi, this 2 means "don't treat the next thing I 1 type specially".
Yes, it's perfectly possible.
If typing in 4 a shell, press ^V and then ^A to insert the 3 ^A verbatim in the current line rather than 2 have it treated as the normal 'go to start 1 of line' command:
% cat -v foo
abc^Adef^Aghi
% cut -d^A -f2 foo
def
If for example you unprintable delimiter 3 is tab which is equivalent of \t and you want 2 to find the second to the end item of each 1 line separated by tab you can use this:
cut -d $'\t' -f2- tablimited.csv
CTRL-V CTRL-A ?
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