[Gllug] Utility to pull fields from lines of a file

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Tue Apr 15 20:21:20 UTC 2008


Nix wrote:
> On 13 Apr 2008, Tethys told this:
>> 	cut -d/ -f2 file.txt
> 
> There's something about cut which causes it to drop out of people's
> heads. The last time I forgot what it was called I actually asked what
> the utility was called that *cut* fields out of a line, *sigh*...

I think I had much the same problem.  I could remember "split", but I 
couldn't remember "cut".

John
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