Editing netcat output before writing to txt file

Question

I am trying to edit the output of netcat before writing it to a txt file.

The following command does not seem to work:

nc -l 1240 | cut -d “;” -f 1 > textfile.txt

when i break it into two parts it works fine eg

nc -l 1240 | -d “;” -f 1

works, and

nc -l 1240 2>&1 > textfile.txt

works fine too

but when i string them together it does not work. any thoughts appreciated thanks

Answer 1

Try:

nc -l 1240 &>&1 | cut -d ";" -f1 > textfile.txt