How to cut (select) a field from text line counting from the end?
I know how to select a field from a line using the cut command. For instance, given the following data:
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Can’t redirect cut output
When I try to redirect the output of cut it always seems to be empty. If don’t redirect it, the output shows in terminal as expected. This is true for OS X 10.10 and Linux 4.1.6.
How to define ‘tab’ delimiter with ‘cut’ in Bash?
Here is an example of using cut to break input into fields using a space delimiter, and obtaining the second field:
How to unbuffer cut?
I want to get just e-mail addresses that end in “@xyz.nl” from my mail logfile. To achieve this I do:
How to use grep and cut in script to obtain website URLs from an HTML file
I am trying to use grep and cut to extract URLs from an HTML file. The links look like:
get first X characters from the cat command?
I have a text file I’m outputting to a variable in my shell script. I only need the first 50 characters however.
How to truncate text lines to N characters maximum?
Given a text file, or the output of a command, how can I truncate it so that every line longer than N characters (usually N=80 in a terminal) gets shorten to N characters maximum? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve … Read more
What are the exact differences between awk and cut with grep?
We know that we can get the second column of the line we want from a file using these two techniques: awk '/WORD/ { print $2 }' filename or grep WORD filename| cut -f 2 -d ' ' My questions are: What are the differences between the two commands above? Which one has the best … Read more
Counting occurrences of word in text file
I have a text file containing tweets and I’m required to count the number of times a word is mentioned in the tweet. For example, the file contains:
Combining 2 different cut outputs in a single command?
I have a file such as the following: