[mythtv-users] scheduler confusion

[Simon Hobson]

blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry about the very long lines, what is the correct way to handle long lines?

There isn't really a "correct" way.
One thing you could do would be to cut the date/time stamp as that's not of interest. So pipe your command through "cut -c n-999" where n is the first column of interest. So "cut -c28-999" would reduce :

> 2014-08-04 16:12:30.385293 I  Title - Subtitle                     Ch Station Day Start  End   S  C  I  T  N Pri
> 2014-08-04 16:12:30.385391 I  Muscle Car                            73 7mate   04 16:11-16:39  1  2  2  A  2 -11

to :

> I  Title - Subtitle                     Ch Station Day Start  End   S  C  I  T  N Pri
> I  Muscle Car                            73 7mate   04 16:11-16:39  1  2  2  A  2 -11

Still long lines, but less long.
It's a generic trick, in some cases the -f and -d options are more suitable - eg "f3-99 -d'<tab char>'" would drop the first 2 columns of a tab delimited file. Sometimes I'll use sed to extract just certain bits of interest, and never forget about your good friend grep. All standard tools available to you on the command line and pretty well guaranteed to be available on any 'unix like' system.