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Commands tagged cut

Terminal - Commands tagged cut - 56 results

grep -Eho '<[a-ZA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_-:]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

2009-08-05 21:54:29

User: inkel

Functions: cut grep sort

Tags: sort grep cut xml

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Lists unambigously names of all xml elements used in files in current directory

This one will work a little better, the regular expressions it is not 100% accurate for XML parsing but it will suffice any XML valid document for sure.

echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\nHost: slashdot.org\n\n" | nc slashdot.org 80 | head -n5 | tail -1 | cut -f2 -d-

2009-07-31 06:49:52

User: beerbrain

Functions: cut echo head tail

Tags: sed tail futurama cut nc

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Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers

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$ grep -or string path/ | wc -l

2009-07-16 12:50:59

User: ioggstream

Functions: grep wc

Tags: awk grep cut arithmetic

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count how many times a string appears in a (source code) tree

grep -o puts each occurrence in a separate line

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grep -rc logged_in app/ | cut -d : -f 2 | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

2009-07-15 14:16:44

User: terceiro

Functions: awk cut grep

Tags: awk grep cut arithmetic

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count how many times a string appears in a (source code) tree

grep's -c outputs how may matches there are for a given file as "file:N", cut takes the N's and awk does the sum.

grep -h -o '<[^/!?][^ >]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

2009-06-17 00:22:18

User: thebodzio

Functions: cut grep sort

Tags: sort grep cut

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Lists unambigously names of all xml elements used in files in current directory

This set of commands was very convenient for me when I was preparing some xml files for typesetting a book. I wanted to check what styles I had to prepare but coudn't remember all tags that I used. This one saved me from error-prone browsing of all my files. It should be also useful if one tries to process xml files with xsl, when using own xml application.

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netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

2009-03-28 21:02:26

User: tiagofischer

Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq

Tags: sort awk uniq netstat cut

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Number of open connections per ip.

Here is a command line to run on your server if you think your server is under attack. It prints our a list of open connections to your server and sorts them by amount.

BSD Version:

netstat -na |awk '{print $5}' |cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 |sort |uniq -c |sort -nr

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