cut is a filter program which extracts fields or columns of each line of input.
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Does delimiter parameter on cut command, always expects it to be in between a string?
I noticed something with the cut command today, which somehow I had never noticed before, even though I have been using and working with them for a long time.
From string /users/developer/, I wanted ...
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cut command, order not preserved?
I have a sample file:-
[root@localhost base_filters]# cat shortlist
2233|charles harris |g.m. |sales |12/12/52| 90000
9876|bill johnson |director |production|03/12/50|130000
5678|robert ...
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not getting desired output with cut command?
[root@localhost ~]# ps aux | grep ata
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 07:52 0:00 [ata/0]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 07:52 0:00 [ata_aux]
root ...
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print last field from line + alternative for awk
Due to technical reason on my Solaris machine, I can't use awk in order to print the last field in line.
What are the other alternatives to awk that print the last field from line (using cut or tr ...
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Split log file by time range
I have a log file and would like to cut it into copies of 15min. In the log file the lines start with:
dd mmm yyyy hh:mm:ss,xxx
e.g.
12 Feb 2013 16:05:02,xxx log text...
and the file rotates ...
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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:
a,b,c,d,e
f,g,h,i,j
k,l,m,n,o
This command:
cut -d, -f2 # returns the second field of the ...
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Help understanding cut command in script
In a bash script, there are the following 2 lines:
ipaddr=$0
segments=`echo $ipaddr | cut --delimiter=. --fields=2-3 --output-delimiter=/`
I do not know how to interpret the second line where the ...
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How to use cut command to get the first and last elements of a row?
I've asked almost the same question already, but this time, I want to retrieve the X latest elements of a row of a CSV file. For example, with an input file as this one:
1;foo;bar;baz;x;y;z
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Can you specify an enclosure for cut? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a robust command line tool for processing csv files?
I can use cut to extract columns from a file:
$ cat foo
foo,bar,hello
bash,baz,world
$ cut -d\, -f2 foo
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Regex/pattern matching problem to extract data
What is the best way to remove distances in the following lines and output cdv format. Can this be done reasonably easily on the command line? I'd like to avoid having to write a full-blow script.
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Variable Substitution in Awk Print Statement -v
I've spent over an hour poking at this. It can't be this hard...
I want to print a column of data from one file to another file. The column I want to print is dependent on what is passed in and stuff ...
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Reorder fields/characters with cut command [duplicate]
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Combining 2 different cut outputs in a single command?
I have One file - temp.txt - which contains
ABCDF
PQRST
LMNOP
I tried this cut command
$ cut -c 2-5 temp.txt
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Combining 2 different cut outputs in a single command?
I have a file such as the following:
1234
ABCD
EFGH
I'd like to convert it to the following:
2341
BCDA
FGHE
The actual file has 4,000 words, so I would like to do this in an efficient manner. I ...
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Cut colored text ignoring color tags
My problem is similar to this one; I want to use cut to simulate a nowrap on tmux, but my output is colored. I know how many columns I want to keep (50) but I don't know how many color tags will be on ...
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cut / grep and df -h
How can I grep or cut the "173G" under "Verf"?
I need this for Unix scripting in school.
jonas@jonaspc:~/$ df -h /dev/sda2
Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sda2 ...
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How to cut by tab character
I want to use cut command to break input into fields and get the second field.
cut -f2 -d' ' <--- How can I tell it to use tab instead of space
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Search for values in 2 columns from CSV
I have a csv files with say 20 odd columns.
I need to get the 14th and 15th column values where value in 14th column is say "VALUE1" and value in 15th column is "VALUE2".
My condition gets satisfied ...
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Manipulating and saving multiple files
I have ~2k files that I want to extract 12 of 26 columns and save the extracted information into a new file. I have been doing this for individual files using
cat "oldfile.csv" | grep -v "=" | cut ...
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How to cut the output to only gather the filename and get-parameter?
I have multiple files with multiple links that are formatted like this:
<a href="http://example.com/fnord.layername.html?parameter=FOO-_-BAR-_-FNORD" class="poit">
<img ... />
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How let `sort | uniq -c` separate the number of occurrences by a tab charactor?
uniq -c separate the occurrence number by spaces, which is hard for to cut or awk to separate it out later.
1000_A1\tB1\n
___1_A2\tB2\n
I can solve this problem using sed -r 's/^ *([0-9]+)/\1\t/' ...
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coreutils that are utf aware?
When I used cut today, I found out it doesn't treat a utf-8 character as a character, but 3 characters because it's 3 bytes long.
This seems to be generally true for many tools.
Are there versions ...
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Cut on both characters and field
I have a record like :
2011-05-29 17:51:34 => 'HS|CMGC|RN431|CI13950|CH7-4a37-afe2-acabfc9d262d|DA110529|TI175133|'
I want my final output to be something like:
2011-05-29 17:51:34 CI13950
I ...
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What should I use when cut doesn't cut it?
I have a file cities like this:
[1598] San Diego, US (inactive)
[4517] St Louis, US (inactive)
[6346] Orlando, US (inactive)
I want to cut out the city names, so that I have:
San Diego
St Louis
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Keep newlines in output of cut
Let's imagine we have a file:
foo bar
foo1 bar1
I want to cut every second word in every line, so I want file to look like this:
foo
foo1
I am trying to use cut -d ' ' -f -1 but what I get is:
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Ubuntu 10.10 network connection cut down after few minutes of starting
Ubuntu 10.10 network connection works fine at the start, but few minutes later the network manager pops up a message saying disconnected you are offline and Chrome browser returns an error message ...
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Emacs command to cut OR copy to system clipboard?
As a very new Emacs user, I've been using Ctrl+w and Ctrl+y to cut/copy and paste between buffers in Emacs. Is there a way to do the same thing so that not just Emacs, but the entire system, can have ...
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Can I make `cut` change a file in place?
The man page doesn't give me much hope, but I'm hoping it's an undocumented (and/or GNU-specific) feature.
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Grab certain contents of a file
So I know tools exist for this problem because I've heard about them, but I don't know what they are.
I want to do something like filter out all data but the usernames in /etc/passwd.
For example, I ...
