What is an equivalent of *Nix 'cut' command in Powershell?

Question

I have following content in a configuration file (sample.cfg),

Time_Zone_Variance(Mins):300 Alert_Interval(Mins):2 Server:10.0.0.9 Port:1840 

I'm trying to store an each values after the : by using split in PowerShell. but i'm not able to produce require output.

Can someone tell me how to use PowerShell split for the above problem ?

Answer 1

You can read the contents of the file using Get-Content, then pipe each line through ForEach-Object, then use the split command on each line, taking the second item in the array as follows:

$filename = "sample.cfg"  Get-Content $filename | ForEach-Object {     $_.split(":")[1] } 

Output

300 2 10.0.0.9 1840 

Update

I prefer the approach by @AnsgarWiechers, but if you really need specifically named values you could create a hashtable and replace the name with the value:

$configValues = @{     hour    = "Time_Zone_Variance(Mins)"     min     = "Alert_Interval(Mins)"     server  = "Server"     port    = "Port" }  Get-Content $filename | ForEach-Object {      # Courtesy of Ansgar Wiechers     $key, $value = $_ -split ':', 2      foreach($configValuesKey in $($configValues.keys)) {         if ($configValues[$configValuesKey] -eq $key)         {             $configValues[$configValuesKey] = $value         }     } }  write-host "`nAll Values:" $configValues write-host "`nIndividual value:" $configValues.port 

Output

All Values:  Name                           Value                                                                                              ----                           -----                                                                                              port                           1840                                                                                               min                            2                                                                                                  server                         10.0.0.9                                                                                           hour                           300                                                                                                 Individual value: 1840