Read line from file after marker and ignore characters before - can this be done? 1

[bazil2]

(Elementary user)

I am using this syntax in a csh to read the first (and only) line in a file called group:


foreach line ( "`cat /path/to/my/user/group`" )
echo $line
end


It returns the value primary:friends

It there a way of changing the syntax to ignore the word primary and the colon, i.e., everything to the right of ':'?

Is that possible?

Best regards

 

[iggsterman]

One way would be to pipe it to "cut -d: -f2

 

[bazil2]

Completely brilliant!

Thank you so much; I've never heard of this command before, but given my experience, that's not surprising!

I understand, the ':' becomes a delimiter or marker and splits the text into fields, f1 being everything up to the marker and f2 everything afterwards.

Best regards