For trivial file size the main overhead is loading programs and opening the file. Reading the file directly with "cut" makes sense.
For large files the argument is less clear unless the command is better than "cat" at reading data from disc.
For example with a 600 Mb text file:
Here reading the file direcly in "cut" is fractionally quicker but has a greater impact on the system overall.
how do you show just the used disk space. using the cut and df command?? or does anyone have any other suggestions on how to do it a better way? (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to cut from a particular position to a particular position and retain the rest.
I tried this
cut -c31-51 file1.txt > file2.txt
But The characters from the position 31 to 51 were only present in file2.txt.
Is there a way to reverse this i.e to retain the rest except from... (1 Reply)
Gurus,
I need help with the cut command :
I have a file with garbage charaters at the beginning of each record; but these characters are not of the same length;
First record has 3 garbage chars to be removed; rest have 2;
If the length was consistent across all the records, I could have... (3 Replies)
Hi
Can anyone what I am doing wrong while using cut command.
for f in *.log
do
logfilename=$f
Log "Log file Name: $logfilename"
logfile1=`basename $logfilename .log`
flength=${#logfile1}
Log "file length $flength"
from_length=$(($flength - 15))
Log "from... (2 Replies)
hay
i am trying to get JUST the PID from the ps command.
my command line is:
ps -ef | grep "mintty" | cut -d' ' -f2
but i get an empty line. i assume that the delimiter is not just one space character, but can't figure out what should i do in order to do that.
i know i can use awk or cut... (8 Replies)
hi,
i have a file
abc,"an,ab",cde,efg
abc,anab,cde,efg and need to cut the second field so the output should be abc,cde,efg and i have used cut -d',' -f1-1,3- but its giving me
abc,ab",cde,efg
abc,cde,efg (4 Replies)
I'm a complete beginner in UNIX (and not a computer science student either), just undergoing a tutoring course. Trying to replicate the instructions on my own I directed output of the ls listing command (lists all files of my home directory ) to My_dir.tsv file (see the screenshot) to make use of... (9 Replies)
im currently running the following command to grab all arguments in front of a script, directly from the process table.
# cat /tmp/allmyprocs
ubuntu 9933 27793 0 03:29 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh ./prying.sh
ubuntu 9941 9933 0 03:29 pts/0 00:00:00 sh
ubuntu 9952 9941 0 03:29... (1 Reply)
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cut-diff
CUT-DIFF(1) Cutter's manual CUT-DIFF(1)NAME
cut-diff - show difference between 2 files with color
SYNOPSIS
cut-diff [option ...] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
cut-diff is a diff command that uses diff feature in Cutter. It shows difference with color.
It's recommended that you use a normal diff(1) when you want to use with patch(1) or you don't need color.
OPTIONS --version
cut-diff shows its own version and exits.
-c [yes|true|no|false|auto], --color=[yes|true|no|false|auto]
If 'yes' or 'true' is specified, cut-diff uses colorized output by escape sequence. If 'no' or 'false' is specified, cut-diff never
use colorized output. If 'auto' or the option is omitted, cut-diff uses colorized output if available.
The default is auto.
-u, --unified
cut-diff uses unified diff format.
--context-lines=LINES
Shows diff context around LINES.
All lines are shown by default. When unified diff format is used, 3 lines are shown by default.
--label=LABEL, -L=LABEL
Uses LABEL as a header label. The first--label option value is used as file1's label and the second --label option value is used
asfile2's label.
Labels are the same as file names by default.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 for success, non-0 otherwise.
TODO: 0 for non-difference, 1 for difference and non-0 for errors.
EXAMPLE
In the following example, cut-diff shows difference between file1 and file2:
% cut-diff file1 file2
In the following example, cut-diff shows difference between file1 and file2 with unified diff format:
% cut-diff -u file1 file2
SEE ALSO diff(1)Cutter February 2011 CUT-DIFF(1)