Commands tagged cut (72)
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Saves one character, the original is probably clearer Show Sample Output
1cut -c -N -
shows number of mysql bin log events (which are mysql server events) per minute, useful to check stress times postmortem Show Sample Output
1mysqlbinlog <logfiles> | grep exec | grep end_log_pos | cut -d' ' -f2- | cut -d: -f-2 | uniq -c -
Same as the rest, but handle IPv6 short IPs. Also, sort in the order that you're probably looking for. Show Sample Output
1netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^(::ffff:|[0-9|])/ { gsub("::ffff:","",$5); print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr -
Download latest NVIDIA Geforce x64 Windows7-8 driver from Nvidia's website. Pulls the latest download version (which includes beta). This is the "English" version. The following command includes a 'sed' line to replace "english" with "international" if needed. You can also replace the starting subdomain with "eu." "uk." and others. Enjoy this one liner! 1 character under the max :)
wget "us.download.nvidia.com$(wget -qO- "$(wget -qO- "nvidia.com/Download/processFind.aspx?psid=95&pfid=695&osid=19&lid=1&lang=en-us" | awk '/driverResults.aspx/ {print $4}' | cut -d "'" -f2 | head -n 1)" | awk '/url=/ {print $2}' | sed -e "s/english/international/" | cut -d '=' -f3 | cut -d '&' -f1)"Show Sample Output1wget "us.download.nvidia.com$(wget -qO- "$(wget -qO- "nvidia.com/Download/processFind.aspx?psid=95&pfid=695&osid=19&lid=1&lang=en-us"|awk '/driverResults.aspx/ {print $4}'|cut -d "'" -f2|head -n 1)"|awk '/url=/ {print $2}'|cut -d '=' -f3|cut -d '&' -f1)" -
Download latest released gitlab docker container
1wget -qO- 'https://github.com'$(curl -s 'https://github.com'$(curl -s https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/releases | grep -m 1 -o '<a.*[0-9\.]</a>' | cut -d '"' -f 2) | grep -o '<a.* rel="nofollow">' | grep 'tar.gz' | cut -d '"' -f 2) -
1lynx -listonly -nonumbers -dump https://djmag.com/top100djs|sed '1d'|cut -d- -f5,6,7|sed -n '180,$p'|nl --number-format=rn --number-width=3|sed 's/-/ /g'|sed -e 's/.*/\L&/' -e 's/\<./\u&/g'
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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. Show Sample Output
0grep -Eho '<[a-ZA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_-:]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2- -
0dd if=/dev/urandom count=200 bs=1 2>/dev/null | tr "\n" " " | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g' | cut -c-16
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I never can remember the syntax of awk. You can give a different -d option to cut to separate by e.g. commas. Also this allows to do more things with the generated SQL, e.g. to redirect it into different files. Show Sample Output
0for each in `cut -d " " -f 1 inputfile.txt`; do echo "select * from table where id = \"$each\";"; done -
0ifconfig -a| awk 'BEGIN{FS="[ :]+"} /Bcast/{print $4}'
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This version makes uses of Bash shell expansion, so it might not work in all other shells.
0svn add $(svn st|grep ^\?|cut -c2-) -
A command to find out what the day ends in. Can be edited slightly to find out what "any" output ends in. NB: I haven't tested with weird and wonderful output. Show Sample Output
0date +%A | cut -c $(( $(date +%A | wc -c) - 1 )) -
0ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | cut -d ':' -f2
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0ifconfig eth0 | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2
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Lightweight alternative with case Show Sample Output
0for a in $(date +"%H%M"|cut -b1,2,3,4 --output-delimiter=" ");do case "$a" in 0)echo "....";;1)echo "...*";;2)echo "..*.";;3)echo "..**";;4)echo ".*..";;5)echo ".*.*";;6)echo ".**.";;7)echo ".***";;8)echo "*...";;9)echo "*..*";;esac;done -
Expand a URL, aka do a head request, and get the URL. Copy this value to clipboard.
0function expand_url() { curl -sI $1 | grep Location: | cut -d " " -f 2 | tr -d "\n" | pbcopy } -
In case sed and awk are not available you may use this to remove the last character from a string with "rev" and "cut". Show Sample Output
0echo "command lines" | rev | cut -c 2- | rev -
Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) ) This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.
0alias busy='rnd_file=$(find /usr/include -type f -size +5k | sort -R | head -n 1) && vim +$((RANDOM%$(wc -l $rnd_file | cut -f1 -d" "))) $rnd_file' -
0tcpflow -c port 80 | grep Host
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See who is using a specific port. Especially when you're using AIX. In Ubuntu, for example, this can easily be seen with the netstat command. Show Sample Output
0netstat -Aan | grep .80 | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep EST | awk '{print $6}' | cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 | sort | uniq -
change the time that you would like to have as print interval and just use it to say whatever you want to Show Sample Output
0sayspeed() { for i in $(seq 1 `echo "$1"|wc -c`); do echo -n "`echo $1 |cut -c ${i}`"; sleep 0.1s; done; echo "";} -
Display the 1st field (employee name) from a colon delimited file Show Sample Output
0cut -d: -f 1 names.txt -
Count on a specific port (80) - FreeBSD friendly. Show Sample Output
0netstat -an | grep 80 | wc -l -
0ifconfig eth0 | grep HW | cut -d " " -f 11
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Maps block devices to the PCIe nodes
0udevadm info -q all -n /dev/sdb | grep ID_PATH | cut -d'-' -f 2 | xargs -n 1 lspci -s - < 1 2 3 >
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