Commands using cut (587)
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Check disk quota for all user Show Sample Output
5quota -q $(cat /etc/passwd|cut -d ':' -f 1) -
An alias cannot be executed as command in a find -exec line. This form will trick the command line and let you do the job.
5find . -exec `alias foo | cut -d"'" -f2` {} \; -
Automatically drops mount points that have non-numeric sizes (e.g. /proc). Tested in bash on Linux and AIX. Show Sample Output
5for m in `df -P | awk -F ' ' '{print $NF}' | sed -e "1d"`;do n=`df -P | grep "$m$" | awk -F ' ' '{print $5}' | cut -d% -f1`;i=0;if [[ $n =~ ^-?[0-9]+$ ]];then printf '%-25s' $m;while [ $i -lt $n ];do echo -n '=';let "i=$i+1";done;echo " $n";fi;done -
Goes through all files in the directory specified, uses `stat` to print out last modification time, then sorts numerically in reverse, then uses cut to remove the modified epoch timestamp and finally head to only output the last 10 modified files. Note that on a Mac `stat` won't work like this, you'll need to use either:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f '%m%t%Sm %12z %N' | sort -nr | cut -f2- | heador alternatively do a `brew install coreutils` and then replace `stat` with `gstat` in the original command. Show Sample Output5find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c'%Y :%y %12s %n' | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head -
A bitcoin "brainwallet" is a secret passphrase you carry in your brain. The Bitcoin Brainwallet Exponent Calculator is the second of three functions needed to calculate a bitcoin PRIVATE key. Roughly, checksum is the first 8 hex digits of sha256(sha256(0x80+sha256(passphrase))) Note that this is a bash function, which means you have to type its name to invoke it Show Sample Output
5function brainwallet_checksum () { (o='openssl sha256 -binary'; p='printf';($p %b "\x80";$p %s "$1"|$o)|$o|sha256sum|cut -b1-8); } -
5find /dev/disk/by-id -type l -printf "%l\t%f\n" | cut -b7- | sort
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5echo "1 BTC = $(curl -s https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice/usd.json | grep -o 'rate":"[^"]*' | cut -d\" -f3) USD"
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weather 97405Show Sample Output5weather() { curl -s "http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:$1.1.99999" | grep "og:title" | cut -d\" -f4 | sed 's/°/ degrees F/'; } -
5function hibp() { sha1=$(echo -n "$1"|sha1sum|awk '{print toupper($0)}'|tr -d '\n'); curl -s -H $'Referer: https://haveibeenpwned.com/' https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/$(echo -n $sha1|cut -c1-5)|grep -i $(echo -n $sha1|cut -c6-40); }
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Notifyme is a program that listen in background for users login, and report on login and logout. Users can be specified from a list or in a ~/notify.rc file. -C options force to display messages on the center of the screen.See man notifyme for more details. Part of notifyme package, tested on Debian. Show Sample Output
4notifyme -C `cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1` -
This appends a random number as a first filed of all lines in SOMEFILE then sorts by the first column and finally cuts of the random numbers.
4awk 'BEGIN{srand()}{print rand(),$0}' SOMEFILE | sort -n | cut -d ' ' -f2- -
works on all unices. Show Sample Output
4function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; } -
List everyone who committed to a particular project, listed alphabetically. To list by commits, add -n to the shortlog. Show Sample Output
4git shortlog -s | cut -c8- -
i wanted to delete all duplicate lines from .bash_history and keep the order of the other lines. the command cat's the file and adds line numbers, then sorts by the second column. afterwards uniq omits repeated lines, but skips the first field (the line number). then it sorts by the line numbers and at the end cuts the numbers off.
4cat -n <file> | sort -k 2 | uniq -f 1 | sort -n | cut -f 2- -
Somewhat shorter version. Show Sample Output
4fping -r1 -g <subnet> 2> /dev/null | grep unreachable | cut -f1 -d' ' -
Change the cut range for hits per 10 sec, minute and so on... Grep can be used to filter on url or source IP. Show Sample Output
4tail -f access_log | cut -c2-21 | uniq -c -
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?
4cut -f 1 three-column.txt > first-column.txt -
Gets the authors, sorts by number of commits (as a vague way of estimating how much of the project is their work, i.e. the higher in the list, the more they've done) and then outputs the results. Show Sample Output
4git log --format='%aN <%aE>' | awk '{arr[$0]++} END{for (i in arr){print arr[i], i;}}' | sort -rn | cut -d\ -f2- -
4slow2() { ionice -c3 renice -n 20 $(pstree `pidof $1` -p -a -u -A|gawk 'BEGIN{FS=","}{print $2}'|cut -f1 -d " ") ; }
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4getent passwd $(whoami) | cut -f 5 -d: | cut -f 1 -d,
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4netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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poor man's xml parser :)
4xml2 < file.xml | grep ^/path/to/element | cut -f2- -d= -
Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.
4for i in *; do I=`echo $i|cut -c 1|tr a-z A-Z`; if [ ! -d "$I" ]; then mkdir "$I"; fi; mv "$i" "$I"/"$i"; done -
google has added 2 more netblocks... Show Sample Output
4for NETBLOCK in $(echo _netblocks.google.com _netblocks2.google.com _netblocks3.google.com); do nslookup -q=TXT $NETBLOCK ; done | tr " " "\n" | grep ^ip[46]: | cut -d: -f2- | sort -
Use the aliased command 'nsl'
3alias nsl 'netstat -f inet | grep -v CLOSE_WAIT | cut -c-6,21-94 | tail +2' - < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last ›
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