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- mkdosfs
- mke2fs
- mkfifo
- mkfs
- mkfs.ext3
- mkisofs
- mknod
- mkswap
- mktemp
- modinfo
- modprobe
- more
- mount
- mpg123
- mpg321
- mt
- mv
- named
- namei
- nameif
- netstat
- newgrp
- nice
- nl
- nm
- nohup
- nslookup
- objdump
- od
- passwd
- paste
- patch
- pax
- perl
- pidof
- ping
- pinky
- pmap
- pr
- printenv
- printf
- ps
- pwd
- python
- qstat
- quota
- rdate
- read
- readelf
- readlink
- rename
- renice
- reset
- resize2fs
- restore
- return
- rev
- rm
- rmdir
- rmmod
- rndc
- route
- rpm
- rsync
- scanimage
- scp
- screen
- script
- sdiff
- sed
- sendmail
- sensors
- seq
- set
- setleds
- setterm
- sftp
- sh
- sha1sum
- shift
- showkey
- shred
- shutdown
- size
- skill
- sleep
- slocate
- sort
- split
- ssh
- ssh-add
- ssh-keygen
- sshd
- stat
- strace
- strings
- strip
- stty
- su
- sudo
- sum
- swapoff
- swapon
- sync
- sysctl
- tabs
- tac
- tail
- tailf
- tar
- taskset
- tcpdump
- tee
- telnet
- test
- time
- times
- tload
- top
- touch
- tput
- tr
- traceroute
- trap
- true
- tty
- tune2fs
- type
- ulimit
- umount
- unalias
- uname
- uniq
- unlink
- unset
- uptime
- useradd
- userdel
- usermod
- users
- usleep
- uudecode
- uuencode
- vi
- vim
- vmstat
- wait
- wall
- watch
- wc
- wget
- whatis
- whereis
- which
- who
- whoami
- whois
- write
- xargs
- yes
- zcat
- zdump
- zgrep
- zless
Commands tagged extract
Terminal - Commands tagged extract - 11 results
gocr -i ~/Screenshot.png
-3
Image to text converter.
Convert your scanned book in image format like .png, .jpg into editable text format.
OCR ==> Optical Code Reader
als some.jar
aunpack foo.tar.bz2
icotool -l demo.ico
0
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/icotool.1.html
There is also wrestool command.
grep "HTTP/1.1\" 404" access_log | awk '{print $7 } ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dFirstPage=14 -dLastPage=17 -sOutputFile=OUTPUT.pdf ORIGINAL.pdf
cut -f 1 three-column.txt > first-column.txt
4
There is a common command for outputting a field or list of fields from each line in a file. Why wouldn't you just use cut?
awk '{print $1}' < three-column.txt > first-column.txt
while read col1 col23; do echo $col1; done < three-column.txt > first-column.txt
while read l; do echo ${l%% *}; done < three-column-list.txt > only-first-column.txt
1
The above is an example of grabbing only the first column. You can define the start and end points specifically by chacater position using the following command:
while read l; do echo ${l:10:40}; done < three-column-list.txt > column-c10-c40.txt
Of course, it doesn't have to be a column, or extraction, it can be replacement
while read l; do echo ${l/foo/bar}; done < list-with-foo.txt > list-with-bar.txt
Read more about parameter expansion here:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/pe
Think of this as an alternative to awk or sed for file operations
wrestool -x --output . -t14 /path/to/your-file.exe
1
wrestool can be found in icoutils (http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils)